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Afterlife · Holding Absence

EXERCISE 8 OF 46
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S
BREAK
PART S15
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCSKS15B+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Afterlife on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-31, snare through bars 32-59, hi-hat through bars 60-66 and snare through bars 67-83, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 34-36, and 11 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Afterlife -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 49, 59, 61 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-50 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-106 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Afterlife?

134 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?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Afterlife?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 49, 59, 61 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED