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EXERCISE 5 OF 59
Groove B -- Part B
74 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART B
PART A
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
13 groovesEDAJS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play only my railgun (electric guitar tab) on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-93, kick and crashes through bars 94-97, snare through bars 98-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-120, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 31 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 39.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |xxoxx-o-xxoxx-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
only my railgun (electric guitar tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 24, 32, 36 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 8-91 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-28 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-43 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is only my railgun (electric guitar tab)?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is only my railgun (electric guitar tab) hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in only my railgun (electric guitar tab)?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 24, 32, 36 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED