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A New Chapter · Sable Hills

EXERCISE 21 OF 76
Join Part H to Part J (bars 19-21)
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CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART Z
PART AF
PART AP
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesABAZAFAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A New Chapter on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-38, toms through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60 and snare through bars 61-86, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x---x-x---x-x-x-x-|
A New Chapter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 36, 39 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BA -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-13 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-21 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-44 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A New Chapter?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 New Chapter hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 A New Chapter?

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 36, 39 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED