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EXERCISE 11 OF 107
Groove B -- Part B
88 / 324 BARS COVERED
0 / 107 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART H
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART AM
PART AW
OUTRO 2
18 groovesAEHAMAWE+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 6
JOIN · 19
LINK · 8
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Orion on drums

324 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 128 BPM, 8:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
128 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
324
LENGTH
8:48
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-55, ride through bars 56-60, hi-hat through bars 61-117 and silence through bars 118-132, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 137-139, 141-143 and 145-147, and 10 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    138
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------|
Orion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 49, 88, 104 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 86 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 -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-65 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Orion?

128 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Orion 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

324 bars, about 8:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Orion?

20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 49, 88, 104 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 324 BARS ANALYSED