ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Maker on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO: 112 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 100
LENGTH: 3:33
DIFFICULTY: 58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-28, snare through bars 29-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 38 and 40-42, and 4 more places -- 18.3% 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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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------------------------------------------------------|

The Maker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 15 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AH (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 28-53 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is The Maker?

112 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Maker hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Maker?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 15 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED