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Verbatim · Morofop

EXERCISE 18 OF 42
Run M1 · Chorus (bars 27-39)
56 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMBQCU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Verbatim on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 2:26 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
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-21, toms through bars 22-23, snare through bars 24-37, toms through bars 38-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-47, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-28, 34-35 and 69-70, and 3 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    70
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-------|
Verbatim -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-30 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part Q and Part U -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-69 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Verbatim?

136 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 Verbatim 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Verbatim?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED