ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Earth on drums

83 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 126 BPM, 3:52 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 126 BPM
TIME: 7/4
BARS: 83
LENGTH: 3:52
DIFFICULTY: 77/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-14, hi-hat through bars 15-37, snare through bars 38-55, hi-hat through bars 56-65 and snare through bars 66-73, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-51 -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40                                                                       41
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----------x-----x-----x-----------|x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----------x-----x-----x-----------|
SD |g--------g--------g-----x--g--------g--------g--------g--------g--------|x--------g--------g--------g--------g--------g--x-----g--------g--------|
BD |x--------x--x-----x--------x--------x--------x--x-----x-----x--x--------|---------x--x-----x-----x--x--------x--------x--------x-----x--x--------|

The Earth -- 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 36 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is The Earth?

126 BPM, in 7/4, 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 The Earth hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED