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And Sorrow, Again ia · psychonaut 4

EXERCISE 6 OF 71
Groove E
159 / 313 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART K
PART S7
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART Z
OUTRO 2
13 groovesVCAGAMK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play And Sorrow, Again ia on drums

313 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 9:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
313
LENGTH
9:21
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-76, hi-hat through bars 77-131, silence through bars 132-149, hi-hat through bars 150-181 and silence through bars 182-186, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 154-156, 158-160 and 162, and 15 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    158
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------|
And Sorrow, Again ia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 60, 76, 82, 94, 112, 118 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- V, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is And Sorrow, Again ia?

115 BPM, in 3/4, 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 And Sorrow, Again ia hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

313 bars, about 9:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 And Sorrow, Again ia?

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 60, 76, 82, 94, 112, 118 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 313 BARS ANALYSED