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Afterglow · Genesis

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove B -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Afterglow on drums

65 bars, 4:12, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-20, hi-hat through bars 21-26 and ride through bars 27-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 14-18 and 27, and 11 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    27
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Afterglow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 20, 26, 28, 36, 49 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-27 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Afterglow?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Afterglow hard to play on drums?

60 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?

65 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Afterglow?

13 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 20, 26, 28, 36, 49 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED