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Using You - Mars Argo · Mars Argo

EXERCISE 21 OF 39
Fill at bar 40 (a small one)
61 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGEBS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Using You - Mars Argo on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-50, snare through bars 51-60, silence through bars 61-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29-30, and 11 more places -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Using You - Mars Argo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 32, 40, 42 and 8 more.

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 -- G, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-25 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-68 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Using You - Mars Argo?

108 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 Using You - Mars Argo hard to play on drums?

56 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Using You - Mars Argo?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 32, 40, 42 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED