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Sense · BAND-MAID

EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Fill at bar 53, 87 and 150 (a small one)
50 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
COUNT-IN
PART F
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART AB
PART N
14 groovesBNES1AB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sense on drums

168 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-41, snare through bars 42-65, hi-hat through bars 66-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 20-21 and 42-48, and 6 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Sense -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 49, 53, 57, 69, 83 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-58 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-72 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sense?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sense hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sense?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 49, 53, 57, 69, 83 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED