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A Thousand Days · Entheos

EXERCISE 16 OF 75
Hold Groove H for 8 bars -- Part H (bars 17-24)
36 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART H
PART M
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART S11
OUTRO
11 groovesSAMAAS2+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Thousand Days on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 12 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|
A Thousand Days -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-33 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Thousand Days?

123 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 Thousand Days hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Thousand Days?

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED