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ADAPT // EVOLVE · Dying In Parallel

ADAPT // EVOLVE · Dying In Parallel
EXERCISE 18 OF 36
3-bar fill at bar 44
41 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
CHORUS
PART S2
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBTS2MAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ADAPT // EVOLVE on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-11, silence through bars 12-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-39 and ride through bars 40-43, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-7, 32-35 and 63 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                3
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x-----------|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----f-------|--------x---------x-----x---x---|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----x-x-x-|x-----x-----x-------x-----x---x-|
ADAPT // EVOLVE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 28, 29, 30, 38, 44 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-41 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part T and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ADAPT // EVOLVE?

91 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 ADAPT // EVOLVE hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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 ADAPT // EVOLVE?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 28, 29, 30, 38, 44 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED