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Twilight zone · Golden Earring

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEJS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Twilight zone on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 3-73, silence through bars 74-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-17, 19-25 and 27-33, and 13 more places -- 79.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 26, 38, 58, 111, 119 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 58-86 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 84-128 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Twilight zone?

120 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 Twilight zone 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Twilight zone?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 26, 38, 58, 111, 119 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED