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Atropos · Periphery

EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove Q -- Part Q
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PART D
PART F
PART Q
PART W
PART Q
PART Y
CHORUS
PART W
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART BL
PART Q
PART S
PART BV
PART Q
PART Y
OUTRO 2
11 groovesTBZYQS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Atropos on drums

289 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 7:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
289
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-34, hi-hat through bars 35-49 and toms through bars 50-57, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 30 and 42, and 20 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    224
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Atropos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 64 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- Q, T -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-140 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-34 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-226 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-64 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Atropos?

163 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 Atropos hard to play on drums?

51 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

289 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 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 Atropos?

8 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 289 BARS ANALYSED