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The Machine · De Memoria

The Machine · De Memoria
EXERCISE 5 OF 54
Groove N (a two-bar phrase)
32 / 242 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART A
PART M
CHORUS
PART BG
BREAK
9 groovesS9AKBGAAE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Machine on drums

242 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 10:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
10:20
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-23, toms through bars 24-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52 and snare through bars 53-65, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 125, 127 and 129, and 10 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    125
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x---x---------x-----|
HH |--------o---o---o---|
SD |----x---------x-----|
BD |x-xx---x--x-xx---x--|
The Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 75 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- BG -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BJ -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BO -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-48 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Machine?

140 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 Machine hard to play on drums?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 10:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Machine?

9 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED