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ADONIS · NDKH

EXERCISE 3 OF 54
Fill at bar 28 and 79 (a small one)
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0 / 54 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART J
PART S3
PART P
PART T
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART BB
PART J
OUTRO 2
14 groovesZJPBBB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ADONIS on drums

159 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-17, silence through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-85 and silence through bars 86-88, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-44, 47 and 51-52, and 4 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
ADONIS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 28, 40, 56, 79, 108 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- Z, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 6-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ADONIS?

160 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 ADONIS hard to play on drums?

56 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in ADONIS?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 28, 40, 56, 79, 108 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED