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ØUTSIDER · Machine Head

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove X -- Chorus
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0 / 65 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
PART A
PART R
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AG
OUTRO
10 groovesXAAGRAI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ØUTSIDER on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-18 and toms through bars 19-23, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-53 and 73-75, and 4 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
ØUTSIDER -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- X -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI, C (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-58 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part AG -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ØUTSIDER?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 ØUTSIDER hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 ØUTSIDER?

19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED