ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Advanced Stage Decomposition on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 130 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 155
LENGTH: 4:30
DIFFICULTY: 76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-43, hi-hat through bars 44-63 and silence through bars 64-67, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 13-14, and 8 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|

Advanced Stage Decomposition -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 16, 22 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
Bars 1-121 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part I and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 19 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Advanced Stage Decomposition?

130 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 Advanced Stage Decomposition hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 27 sittings, about 23 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 Advanced Stage Decomposition?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 16, 22 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED