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Awaiting Deliverance · Aegirson

EXERCISE 27 OF 51
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
134 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesFCVJN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Awaiting Deliverance on drums

172 bars, 9:50, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
9:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-27, ride through bars 28-33, toms through bars 34-35, ride through bars 36-41, toms through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-75, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-22 and 24-26, and 6 more places -- 21.5% 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-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Awaiting Deliverance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 11, 27, 34, 35, 42, 43 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-48 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 58-68 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Awaiting Deliverance?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Awaiting Deliverance hard to play on drums?

58 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 9:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 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 Awaiting Deliverance?

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 11, 27, 34, 35, 42, 43 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED