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Orion · Metallica

EXERCISE 10 OF 91
Groove D
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AI
PART AG
PART AZ
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBAGBFNAZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Orion on drums

251 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 7:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 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
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
7:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-63, hi-hat through bars 64-121, toms through bars 122-124 and kick and crashes through bars 125-127, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-31, 33 and 35, and 19 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Orion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 51, 52, 57 and 67 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- B, AG -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-115 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Orion?

128 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 Orion hard to play on drums?

62 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 7:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

26 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 51, 52, 57 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED