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A New Cycle · Shivers

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART R
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART N
CHORUS 5
9 groovesIANRF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A New Cycle on drums

225 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, snare through bars 65-80, silence through bars 81-84, ride through bars 85-108, hi-hat through bars 109-172 and snare through bars 173-204, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-25, 27-29 and 31-47, and 7 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 48 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-66 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-91 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part Y -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A New Cycle?

160 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 A New Cycle hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 New Cycle?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 48 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED