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A Million Gods · Conception

A Million Gods · Conception
EXERCISE 19 OF 115
Groove K -- Part K
104 / 231 BARS COVERED
0 / 115 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART K
PART X
PART X
PART AJ
PART BF
OUTRO
20 groovesMXBFAAAJ+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 22
LINK · 9
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Million Gods on drums

231 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 7:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
7:42
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-35, hi-hat through bars 36-55 and ride through bars 56-71, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 64-66, and 5 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |---x----x--x----|
BD |x-----xx------x-|
A Million Gods -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 7, 10, 18, 22, 26 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 92 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 -- M -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, W -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-197 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-19 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Million Gods?

117 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 Million Gods hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 7:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 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 A Million Gods?

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 7, 10, 18, 22, 26 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED