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Ashes To Ashes · Faith No More

EXERCISE 21 OF 22
Join Part E to Break (bars 82-84)
81 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, BREAK
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
BREAK
5 groovesCEBS9S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ashes To Ashes on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-44, snare through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 20 and 29-35, and 7 more places -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-----x-----|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|
Ashes To Ashes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 44 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-79 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-29 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Ashes To Ashes?

97 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 Ashes To Ashes hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 To Ashes?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 44 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED