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Autumn · Nocturnal Depression

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
113 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 117 BARS LIT · IN THE COUNT-IN, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Autumn on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
27/100

silence through bars 1-33, snare through bars 34-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-51, 53-67 and 69-83, and 2 more places -- 65.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 35, 36, 52, 68, 84, 100 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Autumn?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Autumn hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Autumn?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 35, 36, 52, 68, 84, 100 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED