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Universe · Apace

EXERCISE 32 OF 32
Play the whole song with the record
85 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 86 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART C
PART E
BREAK 3
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIKECS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Universe on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-17, snare through bars 18-31, hi-hat through bars 32-42 and snare through bars 43-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 43-50 and 78-85 -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 27, 54 and 86.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I, K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-55 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-86 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Universe?

140 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 Universe hard to play on drums?

50 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Universe?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 27, 54 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED