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Amongst The Low And Empty · Signs Of The Swarm

EXERCISE 3 OF 24
Groove D
10 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
6 groovesS3S4BKS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amongst The Low And Empty on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-24, silence through bars 25-105, snare through bars 106-114, silence through bars 115-123 and kick and crashes through bars 124-126, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 1 more place -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |----x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
Amongst The Low And Empty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 108 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-110 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Amongst The Low And Empty?

140 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 Amongst The Low And Empty hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Amongst The Low And Empty?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 108 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED