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Astilla · Arcana

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Astilla on drums

94 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-77, ride through bars 78-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-36, 38-48 and 50-52, and 3 more places -- 84.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o---o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Astilla -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 37 and 61.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Astilla?

170 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 Astilla hard to play on drums?

57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Astilla?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 37 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED