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24 light years (D & B) · Vola

EXERCISE 14 OF 24
Groove O
96 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART Q
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
PART Q
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCLQS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 24 light years (D & B) on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-57, snare through bars 58-69, hi-hat through bars 70-81 and snare through bars 82-95, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-26, 28-42 and 44-46, and 9 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |------x-----x-xx|x-xxxxxxx-x-xxxx|
BD |xxxx-x---x------|-----------x----|
24 light years (D & B) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 81 and 157.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 24 light years (D & B)?

142 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 24 light years (D & B) hard to play on drums?

39 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 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 24 light years (D & B)?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 81 and 157.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED