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Apparitions · Mortal Decay

EXERCISE 2 OF 95
Groove D -- Part D
58 / 242 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AL
CHORUS 3
PART BC
OUTRO
15 groovesEBCDABAL+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apparitions on drums

242 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 7:56 of playing, on crash, ride, 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-63, toms through bars 64-65, ride through bars 66-69, hi-hat through bars 70-78 and ride through bars 79-82, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 23-35 and 44, and 21 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |X---x---x---x---|
Apparitions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 50, 51, 54, 55, 66, 67 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-20 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-79 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Apparitions?

125 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 Apparitions hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 7:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Apparitions?

23 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 50, 51, 54, 55, 66, 67 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED