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EXERCISE 2 OF 27
Groove AI -- Part AI (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART T
PART AI
PART AS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesOASS8AIAZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ahdyn Dirdysh on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
87/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-62, toms through bars 63-79, silence through bars 80-82, toms through bars 83-93 and hi-hat through bars 94-100, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19, 22 and 36-37, and 3 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18                               19
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--x-x-o-x-x-o-x-x-x-x-o-o-x-x-o-|x-x-o-x-x-x-x-o-o-x-x-o-x-x-o-x-|
SD |--------X-----x-----X-----------|X-----x-----X-----------X-----x-|
T1 |------g-----------------------g-|----------------------g---------|
T2 |------------g-------------------|----g-----------------------g---|
BD |X---x-----x-----X-------X---x---|--x-----X-------X---x-----x-----|
HF |----------------------x---------|--------------x-----------------|
Ahdyn Dirdysh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 67 minutes.
  7. Bars 1-68 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-80 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ahdyn Dirdysh?

82 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 Ahdyn Dirdysh hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 12 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 Ahdyn Dirdysh?

1 fill to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED