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Beneath A Pale Sky · Fleshroad

Beneath A Pale Sky · Fleshroad
EXERCISE 1 OF 94
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART AL
CHORUS 4
PART S11
PART AW
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAAWSHS11+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beneath A Pale Sky on drums

240 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 6:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-61, hi-hat through bars 62-109 and ride through bars 110-118, and 7 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 27 more places -- 16.1% 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+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |----ooooo-oo|
SD |---x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----|
Beneath A Pale Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 108 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 102 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AW -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-111 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-92 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beneath A Pale Sky?

110 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Beneath A Pale Sky hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Beneath A Pale Sky?

26 fills to learn, played 108 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 102 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED