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Atlas · Battles

Atlas · Battles
EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 240 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S7
PART R
PART U
PART V
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesDNBUR+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Atlas on drums

240 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 7:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
7:07
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-77, snare through bars 78-89, toms through bars 90-96, silence through bars 97-111, kick and crashes through bars 112-127 and hi-hat through bars 128-187, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-42, 61-68 and 70-77, and 3 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
FT |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Atlas -- 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 43, 59 and 205.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, U -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-78 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-128 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Atlas?

135 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 Atlas hard to play on drums?

62 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 7:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Atlas?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 43, 59 and 205.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED