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415 · Evolutionary Vows

415 · Evolutionary Vows
EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove U -- Chorus
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0 / 71 PASSED · 60 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesULAKHB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 415 on drums

204 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-49 and snare through bars 50-55, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 58-60, and 17 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
415 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 17, 21 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- U -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-25 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 415?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 415 hard to play on drums?

58 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 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 415?

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 17, 21 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED