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The Driver · Måneskin

EXERCISE 28 OF 34
Groove O
83 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBJHC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Driver on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 3-34, snare through bars 35-49, hi-hat through bars 50-74, snare through bars 75-82, ride through bars 83-88 and snare through bars 89-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-33, and 2 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 26, 34, 40, 57, 58, 66 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-20 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-50 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-81 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Driver?

139 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 Driver hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 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 The Driver?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 26, 34, 40, 57, 58, 66 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED