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Telescope · Cage The Elephant

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAHS1JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Telescope on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-37 and snare through bars 38-40, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 41-44, and 4 more places -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 7-37 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Telescope?

95 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 Telescope hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED