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Another Quest · Hespera

EXERCISE 23 OF 54
Run F1 · Part F (bars 27-43)
52 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART D
PART F
PART P
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS8BFNL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Another Quest on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
100/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-41, toms through bars 42-43, ride through bars 44-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17 -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---------------|
Another Quest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 18, 26, 31, 33, 34 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-30 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Another Quest?

145 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 Another Quest hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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 Another Quest?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 18, 26, 31, 33, 34 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED