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AMBIENCE · GRAVEYARD PUPPETS

AMBIENCE · GRAVEYARD PUPPETS
EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
72 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 91 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
BREAK
PART G
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
8 groovesBADCG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play AMBIENCE on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
23/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-12, snare through bars 13-17, hi-hat through bars 18-32, snare through bars 33-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-49, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 13-17 and 40, and 3 more places -- 24.7% 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
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
AMBIENCE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 90.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A, C, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-37 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-91 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is AMBIENCE?

120 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 AMBIENCE hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 AMBIENCE?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED