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The Bug of Planet Zee · Krewmen, McMillan, Cole

The Bug of Planet Zee · Krewmen, McMillan, Cole
EXERCISE 3 OF 11
Groove B
81 / 98 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Bug of Planet Zee on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-45, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 18-29 and 34-44, and 3 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
The Bug of Planet Zee -- 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 10 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 12-65 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Bug of Planet Zee?

135 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 The Bug of Planet Zee hard to play on drums?

52 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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