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Aggressive Evolution · Loathe

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove Q -- Chorus 2
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PART I
CHORUS
PART V
PART S8
CHORUS 2
PART S11
OUTRO
11 groovesQVS8AQF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aggressive Evolution on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, toms through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-30, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 27 and 52-54, and 2 more places -- 14.1% 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-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Aggressive Evolution -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- Q, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-22 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-29 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part V -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aggressive Evolution?

95 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 Aggressive Evolution hard to play on drums?

55 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Aggressive Evolution?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED