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Become One · In Flames

EXERCISE 7 OF 76
Fill at bar 8
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0 / 76 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART C
PART C
PART A
CHORUS
PART C
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AC
BREAK
OUTRO
8 groovesLACYAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Become One on drums

134 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, snare through bars 39-50, hi-hat through bars 51-58 and snare through bars 59-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 19-21 and 31-33, and 3 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part A -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-119 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-75 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-88 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Become One?

160 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 Become One hard to play on drums?

59 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Become One?

23 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED