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Ordinary World · Duran Duran

EXERCISE 21 OF 48
4-bar fill at bar 28
65 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART C
PART G
PART F
PART G
PART W
CHORUS
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesYWGCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ordinary World on drums

99 bars, 5:38, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100

ride through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-54, 56-58 and 68-70, and 3 more places -- 18.2% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xxxxxx-xx-|
Ordinary World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- Y, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-25 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part W -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ordinary World?

70 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 Ordinary World hard to play on drums?

61 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?

99 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Ordinary World?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED