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The Groove · Muse

EXERCISE 9 OF 24
Fill at bar 5, 9 and 13
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Groove on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-13 and hi-hat through bars 14-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 5 more places -- 39.3% 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 |o---o---o-o-o---|
SD |----x--x--x-x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
The Groove -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 25, 29 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-26 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-46 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 42-61 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Groove?

100 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 Groove hard to play on drums?

56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in The Groove?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 25, 29 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED