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Akróasis · Obscura

EXERCISE 23 OF 81
2-bar fill at bar 45 and 2 more
150 / 231 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, CHORUS 5
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART AE
CHORUS 5
PART AT
11 groovesCAEATFU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 13
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Akróasis on drums

231 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
81/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-50, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 35-41 and 43-44, and 8 more places -- 17% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Akróasis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 10, 26, 33, 34, 45, 46 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE, U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 35-78 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Akróasis?

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

Is Akróasis hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Akróasis?

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 10, 26, 33, 34, 45, 46 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED