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Auto Assimilation · National Assembly

Auto Assimilation · National Assembly
EXERCISE 25 OF 81
2-bar fill at bar 23
140 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART AB
PART AE
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGKUAEA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Auto Assimilation on drums

212 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 6:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-44, toms through bars 45-47, hi-hat through bars 48-56 and snare through bars 57-65, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 31-32, and 15 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---x-x-x-x-----x---|
Auto Assimilation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 61 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O (a two-bar phrase) -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-111 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-111 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Auto Assimilation?

134 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 Auto Assimilation hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Auto Assimilation?

22 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED