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EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove P -- Chorus
0 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART B
PART J
CHORUS
PART W
PART Z
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
10 groovesPBADJS8+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reflection Room on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
88/100

ride through bars 2-26, snare through bars 27-50, hi-hat through bars 51-55, silence through bars 56-63, snare through bars 64-84 and ride through bars 85-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 33, and 8 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-x-x-------x-------x-x-|
Reflection Room -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reflection Room?

102 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 Reflection Room hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Reflection Room?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED