ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Terre on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 140 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 156
LENGTH: 4:27
DIFFICULTY: 82/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-51, snare through bars 52-60, hi-hat through bars 61-107, snare through bars 108-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-122, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19, 22-23 and 26-27, and 9 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18                                               19
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x-----x--x--x--x-----x-----x--x--|---x--x--x-----x--x--x--x-----x-----x--x-----x--|

A Terre -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 36, 40, 50, 52, 88 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase), H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is A Terre?

140 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 Terre hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Terre?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 36, 40, 50, 52, 88 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED