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Beside Cliffs and Chasms · Kardashev

EXERCISE 11 OF 65
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 25-27)
75 / 238 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART M
PART P
PART S
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART S
OUTRO
14 groovesDSS15KS1+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beside Cliffs and Chasms on drums

238 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-60, hi-hat through bars 61-64 and snare through bars 65-68, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-30, 113-119 and 129-135, and 3 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Beside Cliffs and Chasms -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 44, 52, 66, 74, 80 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-31 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 27-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beside Cliffs and Chasms?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Beside Cliffs and Chasms hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Beside Cliffs and Chasms?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 44, 52, 66, 74, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED