ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play By the wings of a tragedy :D on drums

91 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 3:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 95 BPM
TIME: 3/4
BARS: 91
LENGTH: 3:17
DIFFICULTY: 77/100

ride through bars 2-16, snare through bars 17-27, hi-hat through bars 28-34, ride through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-41 and silence through bars 42-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 79-81, 83-85 and 87-89 -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    79                                                               80
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------x--x-x--x--x-x----------------------------------|--------x--x-x--x-----------------------x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|

By the wings of a tragedy :D -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part H and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 39-49 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is By the wings of a tragedy :D?

95 BPM, in 3/4, 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 By the wings of a tragedy :D hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 By the wings of a tragedy :D?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED