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EXERCISE 2 OF 71
Groove A -- Part A
62 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART A
PART K
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCAKBCAX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reflection on drums

232 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 10:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
10:12
DIFFICULTY
82/100

toms through bars 1-155, ride through bars 156-164, toms through bars 165-197, ride through bars 198-200, toms through bars 201-216 and ride through bars 217-232.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-33 and 35, and 16 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |------------x-x-x---x---x-------|
T1 |------------x-x-----------------|
T2 |------x-----------x-------------|
FT |x---x---x-----------------------|
BD |x---------x-----x-----x---------|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Reflection -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 125, 144, 153, 154, 164, 168 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reflection?

91 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 hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 10:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 24 sittings, about 23 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?

13 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 125, 144, 153, 154, 164, 168 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED