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US Forces · Midnight Oil

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
PART S3
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDFS3S1B+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play US Forces on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-27, snare through bars 28-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31, snare through bars 32-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-35 and snare through bars 36-37, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 24 and 41-47, and 10 more places -- 51.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 55, 65, 87, 112, 113 and 137.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-43 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 45-66 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 82-137 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is US Forces?

130 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 US Forces hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 US Forces?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 55, 65, 87, 112, 113 and 137.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED