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Another State Of Grace · Black Star Riders

Another State Of Grace · Black Star Riders
EXERCISE 7 OF 56
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-5)
58 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART X
10 groovesQVDTL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Another State Of Grace on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-20 and toms through bars 21-24, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-40, 42 and 44-50, and 6 more places -- 36.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    34
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
Another State Of Grace -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- Q, T -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Another State Of Grace?

128 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 State Of Grace hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Another State Of Grace?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED