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A.D. · The Butterfly Effect

EXERCISE 30 OF 37
Fill at bar 143 (a small one)
119 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDGKCP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A.D. on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-33, silence through bars 34-38, snare through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-42, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-32, 73-84 and 124-137 -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g---------------|----------------|
RD |g-g-g-ggg-g-g-g-|g-g-g-ggg-g-g-g-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x---|--x---x---------|
A.D. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 115, 143, 147 and 151.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-46 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-101 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 115-137 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A.D.?

152 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 A.D. hard to play on drums?

52 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 A.D.?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 115, 143, 147 and 151.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED