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Autumn · PLAGUE THY CHILD

Autumn · PLAGUE THY CHILD
EXERCISE 11 OF 116
Groove F
87 / 256 BARS COVERED
0 / 116 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART BK
17 groovesXCRBKBI+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Autumn on drums

256 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 7:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
7:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-17, toms through bars 18-21, snare through bars 22-53, silence through bars 54-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-71, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-67, 69-71 and 77-79, and 19 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    105
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |----o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|
Autumn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 87 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 1-41 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-53 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Autumn?

140 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?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 7:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 24 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 Autumn?

28 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED