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Autumnus · Reflections
EXERCISE 27 OF 52
Groove V -- Part V
73 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S4
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART V
PART F
OUTRO
11 groovesDS1ALF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Autumnus on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-37, silence through bars 38-44, snare through bars 45-84, hi-hat through bars 85-88 and ride through bars 89-90, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-31, 33-35 and 60-63, and 6 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 24, 49, 50, 53, 56 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- F, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-44 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-72 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part V -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 78-93 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Autumnus?

119 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 Autumnus hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Autumnus?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 24, 49, 50, 53, 56 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED