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Acedia · Obliviscent

Acedia · Obliviscent
EXERCISE 1 OF 86
Groove R -- Chorus
0 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART J
CHORUS
PART W
PART AD
PART AI
OUTRO 2
17 groovesRJWMAB+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Acedia on drums

195 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, snare through bars 49-65, silence through bars 66-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-88, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-55, 58-63 and 180-185, and 1 more place -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 14, 16, 24 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- R -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-49 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Acedia?

155 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 Acedia hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 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 Acedia?

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 14, 16, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED