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Undercover Martyn · Two Door Cinema Club

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEFMI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Undercover Martyn on drums

108 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 29-44 and 61-67, and 1 more place -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HF |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Undercover Martyn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-45 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-96 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Undercover Martyn?

158 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Undercover Martyn hard to play on drums?

63 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?

108 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Undercover Martyn?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED