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Armamentarium drum version · Neaera

EXERCISE 37 OF 71
Fill at bar 88
155 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART N
PART C
PART J
CHORUS
PART N
PART F
OUTRO
9 groovesACFJN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Armamentarium drum version on drums

185 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-48, hi-hat through bars 49-54, snare through bars 55-94 and toms through bars 95-96, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 49-55 and 57-63, and 6 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-18 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-100 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Armamentarium drum version?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Armamentarium drum version hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Armamentarium drum version?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED