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Untitled Number 1 · onewaymirror
EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove U -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
PART G
PART L
PART Q
PART Z
PART AF
PART AI
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesUGZLAF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Untitled Number 1 on drums

120 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-45, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-36, 84-86 and 92-95, and 2 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    84                               85
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-------x---x---x---|------------x-x-----------------|
Untitled Number 1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 26, 27, 79 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- U, AF -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Untitled Number 1?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Untitled Number 1 hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Untitled Number 1?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 26, 27, 79 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED