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Artifacts of the Black Rain · In Flames

EXERCISE 34 OF 50
Run S111 · Break 2 (bars 81-82)
112 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART G
BREAK 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDAGOP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Artifacts of the Black Rain on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and ride through bars 65-72, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-23, and 8 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Artifacts of the Black Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 16, 24, 40 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- D, G -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-49 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-68 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-84 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 87-102 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Artifacts of the Black Rain?

150 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 Artifacts of the Black Rain hard to play on drums?

64 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Artifacts of the Black Rain?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 16, 24, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED