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Myth · Beach House

EXERCISE 9 OF 14
Groove E -- Outro
64 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBDS1EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Myth on drums

74 bars, 4:10, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-37, toms through bars 38-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-37 and 50-73 -- 69.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Myth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 44-74 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Myth?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Myth hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED