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Ordinary world ver 2 · Duran Duran

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove C -- Outro 2
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0 / 45 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCES8P+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ordinary world ver 2 on drums

82 bars, 4:39, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

46 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
82
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-19, ride through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-56, silence through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 9 and 14-15, and 8 more places -- 27.6% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Ordinary world ver 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 21, 26, 27, 43, 51 and 4 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-43 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-68 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ordinary world ver 2?

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 ver 2 hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ordinary world ver 2?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 21, 26, 27, 43, 51 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED