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A Desire To Disappear · Takamachi Walk

A Desire To Disappear · Takamachi Walk
EXERCISE 9 OF 92
Fill at bar 8 and 56 (a small one)
89 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART F
PART N
PART C
PART Y
PART AG
CHORUS
13 groovesAMAGNYF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Desire To Disappear on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
7:18
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, snare through bars 37-60, hi-hat through bars 61-69 and snare through bars 70-84, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 119-150 -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    119
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
A Desire To Disappear -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- AM, AG, N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Desire To Disappear?

100 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 Desire To Disappear hard to play on drums?

48 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 7:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Desire To Disappear?

25 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED