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The Maze · Vinnie Moore

The Maze · Vinnie Moore
EXERCISE 4 OF 83
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
93 / 399 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART O
PART I
PART O
PART W
PART AA
OUTRO 2
17 groovesS26IQWO+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 9
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Maze on drums

399 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 7:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
399
LENGTH
7:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-66, ride through bars 67-82 and snare through bars 83-98, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-38, 41-46 and 51-66, and 4 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51               52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-----x---x-----|
The Maze -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 28, 31, 39, 40, 48, 50 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- I, W -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 15-40 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-70 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Maze?

250 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Maze hard to play on drums?

46 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

399 bars, about 7:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 16 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 Maze?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 28, 31, 39, 40, 48, 50 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 399 BARS ANALYSED