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Prime Mover · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove N -- Part N
0 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
PART B
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART N
PART O
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesKNIBF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prime Mover on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
74/100

ride through bars 2-23, toms through bars 24-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-70, toms through bars 71-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-80, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-70 and 110-125 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------x-x-x-x-x-o-o-----|
BD |x-----------------------|
Prime Mover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 27, 33, 34, 35, 36, 44 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- N, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-28 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prime Mover?

135 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Prime Mover hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Prime Mover?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 27, 33, 34, 35, 36, 44 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED