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21St Century Schizoid Man Eb · King Crimson

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EXERCISE 14 OF 99
Fill at bar 14 (a small one)
78 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 99 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AG
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO 2
20 groovesZCABBVAG+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 5
JOIN · 20
LINK · 6
SECTION · 17
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 21St Century Schizoid Man Eb on drums

214 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 76 BPM, 9:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
9:42
DIFFICULTY
77/100

ride through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-27 and ride through bars 28-88, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-56, 135-146 and 188-191 -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45                                   46
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
RD |x--x-----x--------x--x-----x--------|x--x-----x--x--x--x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x--------x--------x--------x--|------x--------x--------x-----x-----|
BD |x--------x--------x--------x--------|x--------x--------x-----------------|
21St Century Schizoid Man Eb -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB, AQ -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-184 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 21St Century Schizoid Man Eb?

76 BPM, in 3/4, 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 21St Century Schizoid Man Eb hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 9:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 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 21St Century Schizoid Man Eb?

15 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED