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Ascendancy · Trivium

EXERCISE 5 OF 75
Groove J -- Part J
70 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART A
PART G
PART J
PART J
PART J
PART J
PART J
PART Y
CHORUS 5
PART Y
PART J
PART J
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLYJPG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ascendancy on drums

225 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-76, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 55 and 89-91, and 11 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Ascendancy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- P, L -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-65 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-48 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ascendancy?

212 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 Ascendancy hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 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 Ascendancy?

15 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED