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Title Track · Machine Gun Kelly

EXERCISE 28 OF 45
3-bar fill at bar 86
85 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S7
COUNT-IN
PART S3
CHORUS
PART P
PART R
PART S7
PART W
PART Z
9 groovesGS1PWZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Title Track on drums

121 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-23, silence through bars 24-26, toms through bars 27-29, hi-hat through bars 30-43 and snare through bars 44-46, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 5 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    30                               31
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|----x-----------x---x-----------|
Title Track -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 44, 45, 59 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- G, P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-30 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S7 and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part W and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Title Track?

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

Is Title Track 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Title Track?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 44, 45, 59 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED