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A Work Of Art · INK - AmyLee

A Work Of Art · INK - AmyLee
EXERCISE 25 OF 68
Fill at bar 56 (a small one)
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0 / 68 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesMDS20AS1+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Work Of Art on drums

198 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22 and snare through bars 23-24, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39 and 41, and 18 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x---x-|
A Work Of Art -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-59 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and Part R -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-76 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-115 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Work Of Art?

202 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 Work Of Art hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Work Of Art?

17 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED