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Before The Creation Of Time · Unleashed

EXERCISE 17 OF 54
Fill at bar 11, 43 and 124 (a small one)
118 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesARIWOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Before The Creation Of Time on drums

164 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
81/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-65, ride through bars 66-97, snare through bars 98-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-146, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 17 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--xxx--x--xxx--|
Before The Creation Of Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-86 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Before The Creation Of Time?

170 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 Before The Creation Of Time hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Before The Creation Of Time?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED