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Trademark · Eric Johnson

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 8 PASSED · 88 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trademark on drums

138 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 176 BPM, 4:42 of playing on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
23/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-92 and silence through bars 93-138.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-36 and 38-40, and 1 more place -- 95.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Trademark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 41.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Trademark?

176 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Trademark hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Trademark?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED