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Symbol IV:🜃 · Ave Mujica

EXERCISE 1 OF 89
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART I
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART O
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBS13IVO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Symbol IV:🜃 on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, snare through bars 31-39 and silence through bars 40-42, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 63-65, and 3 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x---g---|x---g---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxx---xxxxx-|--xxxxxx--xx--xx|
Symbol IV:🜃 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 22, 26, 28 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-83 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-39 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-46 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part V -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Symbol IV:🜃?

148 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 Symbol IV:🜃 hard to play on drums?

56 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Symbol IV:🜃?

25 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 22, 26, 28 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED