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SURPRISE-DRIVE · Mitsuru Matsuoka

SURPRISE-DRIVE · Mitsuru Matsuoka
EXERCISE 8 OF 90
3-bar fill at bar 8
42 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART I
PART O
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AH
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
12 groovesWAAAEIAH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SURPRISE-DRIVE on drums

145 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-28, ride through bars 29-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-64, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 42-43 and 70, and 5 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
SURPRISE-DRIVE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- W, T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is SURPRISE-DRIVE?

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

Is SURPRISE-DRIVE hard to play on drums?

60 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 SURPRISE-DRIVE?

19 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED