ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Transform (neorig) on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 99
LENGTH: 3:18
DIFFICULTY: 97/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-25, ride through bars 26-32 and snare through bars 33-41, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 75-77, and 1 more place -- 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.

    26                                               27
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------x-----------|
RD |--------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Transform (neorig) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
Through Part R and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Transform (neorig)?

120 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 Transform (neorig) hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Transform (neorig)?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED