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EXERCISE 15 OF 36
Fill at bar 19 (a small one)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS6BRAM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ascensionism on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, silence through bars 21-24 and snare through bars 25-26, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 13 and 37, and 7 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    75
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----|
Ascensionism -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 7, 10, 12, 16, 19 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-26 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-83 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ascensionism?

117 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 Ascensionism hard to play on drums?

47 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Ascensionism?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 7, 10, 12, 16, 19 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED