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EXERCISE 8 OF 42
4-bar fill at bar 6
69 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART W
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGAFABWM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Proxy on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-31, toms through bars 32-33, snare through bars 34-39, toms through bars 40-41 and snare through bars 42-47, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-32, 34-40 and 42-48, and 2 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18           19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----|------x-----|
BD |xxx-xx--xxx-|xx-xxx--xx-x|
Proxy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-21 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part W and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-121 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Proxy?

118 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 Proxy hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Proxy?

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED