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Strong Reflection · Mars Red Sky

Strong Reflection · Mars Red Sky
EXERCISE 5 OF 23
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
104 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strong Reflection on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-158.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 25 more places -- 59.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-x---x-----|
Strong Reflection -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-59 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-82 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Strong Reflection?

120 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 Strong Reflection hard to play on drums?

47 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Strong Reflection?

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED