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Aimless Arrow · Converge

EXERCISE 12 OF 67
Groove E
70 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART AA, PART AD
PART A
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART A
PART AD
9 groovesSKAADAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aimless Arrow on drums

125 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 163 BPM, 2:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
94/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-11, snare through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-37, snare through bars 38-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-69, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 46-48, and 7 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x--------x--x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------x-----------|
Aimless Arrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 10, 17, 21, 23, 24 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aimless Arrow?

163 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Aimless Arrow hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Aimless Arrow?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 10, 17, 21, 23, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED