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onset · Band-Maid

EXERCISE 2 OF 51
Groove I -- Part I
16 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART B
PART F
PART O
PART R
PART X
PART I
PART R
CHORUS
PART AK
PART V
PART X
10 groovesADRXAKB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play onset on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22 and toms through bars 23-24, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-74, 77-79 and 83-85, and 4 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--xx--xx----|
onset -- 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 50 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 -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-44 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is onset?

140 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 onset hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 21 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED