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Orbit · Good Kid

EXERCISE 20 OF 24
Hold Groove B for 8 bars -- Outro (bars 50-57)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Orbit on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-27 and snare through bars 28-30, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 38-40, and 3 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 29, 45, 49, 54, 57 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-41 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-50 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Orbit?

118 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 Orbit hard to play on drums?

58 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Orbit?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 29, 45, 49, 54, 57 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED