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Aquarius Initiation · Kolm

EXERCISE 1 OF 101
Groove Y -- Chorus
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0 / 101 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART H
PART N
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AB
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
22 groovesYBVABZN+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 21
LINK · 6
SECTION · 18
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aquarius Initiation on drums

220 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, toms through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-31, toms through bars 32-34, silence through bars 35-36 and toms through bars 37-52, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72-93, 142 and 144, and 2 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------x---x-----------x---|
Aquarius Initiation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 30, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 86 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 -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 22 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aquarius Initiation?

120 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 Aquarius Initiation hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

220 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 30 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Aquarius Initiation?

14 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 30, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED