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autolisis · Long Goodbye

autolisis · Long Goodbye
EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove Q -- Part Q
0 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART Q
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART Q
PART S7
OUTRO
8 groovesCHABQS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play autolisis on drums

93 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
48/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-61, ride through bars 62-65, snare through bars 66-74, silence through bars 75-81 and kick and crashes through bars 82-85, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 66, and 3 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
autolisis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, 37 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-35 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-66 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is autolisis?

160 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 autolisis 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 autolisis?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, 37 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED