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aaa · Nightfall Of Sorrows
EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 42 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART H
OUTRO
6 groovesFHDLS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play aaa on drums

131 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-46, hi-hat through bars 47-89, snare through bars 90-105, silence through bars 106-109 and snare through bars 110-117, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 24-30 and 77-82, and 3 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    77
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
aaa -- 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 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 23 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-32 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is aaa?

230 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is aaa hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 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 aaa?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 23 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED