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Axe To Fall · Converge

EXERCISE 21 OF 32
Groove N -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBNIGS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Axe To Fall on drums

61 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 1:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:21
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-16, ride through bars 17-26, snare through bars 27-33, ride through bars 34-35 and snare through bars 36-42, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 27-29, and 1 more place -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----x---x-----x-----x---x-----|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----x-----x---x-----|
Axe To Fall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 7, 22, 24, 49, 52 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-50 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Axe To Fall?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Axe To Fall hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 1:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Axe To Fall?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 7, 22, 24, 49, 52 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED