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The Launch · Blaze

EXERCISE 21 OF 38
Fill at bar 60 (a small one)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesGCEPA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Launch on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 25-27 and 29-31, and 4 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 23, 24, 28 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-17 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-25 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-57 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 73-89 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Launch?

120 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 Launch hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Launch?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 23, 24, 28 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED