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Truganini · Midnight Oil

EXERCISE 5 OF 37
Groove C
108 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
6 groovesDJFGH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Truganini on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-138, toms through bars 139-140 and hi-hat through bars 141-157.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-35, 37-65 and 76-80, and 7 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 36, 92, 115, 116, 123, 124 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 84-91 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 92-118 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 137-151 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Truganini?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Truganini hard to play on drums?

57 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Truganini?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 36, 92, 115, 116, 123, 124 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED