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Taurus V2 · Haken

EXERCISE 3 OF 62
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
23 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART B
BREAK
PART I
PART S
CHORUS
PART AR
BREAK 3
OUTRO
14 groovesAESIBDAR+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Taurus V2 on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-12, silence through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-45, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54-60 and 62-67 -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54                                                       55
    1...............2...............3...............4....... 1...............2...............3...............4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----g---g-------g---g-----------x-----------g-------g---|----g-----------g---g-----------x-----------g---g---g---|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-------------------------------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-------------------|
Taurus V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 28, 29 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Taurus V2?

116 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 Taurus V2 hard to play on drums?

80 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?

126 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Taurus V2?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 28, 29 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED