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And The Decline Sang · Boreal Symphony

EXERCISE 14 OF 19
Groove H (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS7KGBD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play And The Decline Sang on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-34, silence through bars 35-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80 and kick and crashes through bars 81-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 27-28 and 31-32, and 4 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |---xxx------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
And The Decline Sang -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 8-22 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is And The Decline Sang?

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 And The Decline Sang hard to play on drums?

60 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 9 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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