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UNION · OxT

EXERCISE 11 OF 83
Fill at bar 22 (a small one)
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0 / 83 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
PART M
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART BK
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJDEMZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play UNION on drums

163 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-34, snare through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-78, toms through bars 79-81 and silence through bars 82-84, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-40, 51 and 89, and 6 more places -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39               40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|------x---------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o---|--o-o-----o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
UNION -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- Z, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-19 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-35 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is UNION?

178 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 UNION hard to play on drums?

58 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 UNION?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED