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Ashes of myself · Reaper

Ashes of myself · Reaper
EXERCISE 4 OF 38
Groove M -- Part M
46 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART M
BREAK 3
OUTRO
10 groovesDHS12MB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ashes of myself on drums

105 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and silence through bars 45-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 25-32 and 51-58 -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Ashes of myself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 12, 23, 24, 35, 36 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, H -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-17 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-45 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-102 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ashes of myself?

165 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 Ashes of myself hard to play on drums?

60 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Ashes of myself?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 12, 23, 24, 35, 36 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED