Ascension · Badring

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6-7 and 15, and 3 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ASCENSION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11 and 39 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 2 sections: 24 keep time and 45 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-17.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ascension?

80 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 Ascension hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 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 Ascension?

10 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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