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Afterlife · Evanescence

EXERCISE 10 OF 55
Groove I -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART AB
13 groovesIEKS1AB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Afterlife on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-20, snare through bars 21-32, silence through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-52 and snare through bars 53-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 26 and 54, and 6 more places -- 16.8% 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-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Afterlife -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 28, 43, 56, 58, 59 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-25 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-65 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 31-42 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-79 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Afterlife?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Afterlife hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Afterlife?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 28, 43, 56, 58, 59 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED