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Ataraxia · fromjoy

EXERCISE 17 OF 53
Groove O
66 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART M
PART J
PART N
PART P
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS10NJMP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ataraxia on drums

160 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 6:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
6:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-27, snare through bars 28-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-37, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 16 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Ataraxia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- N, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part J -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-66 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part S5 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ataraxia?

180 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 Ataraxia hard to play on drums?

48 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 6:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ataraxia?

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED