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Avowal · Kilgore

Avowal · Kilgore
EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove A -- Part A
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0 / 64 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS, PART O
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
PART V
PART A
PART A
PART A
PART A
9 groovesKARVAI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Avowal on drums

175 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, ride through bars 57-74 and snare through bars 75-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 49 and 53, and 6 more places -- 17.7% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Avowal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Avowal?

195 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 Avowal hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 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 Avowal?

14 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED