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by the wings of a tragedy · septemberistheonlytimeidontthinkofyou

EXERCISE 3 OF 59
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
17 / 107 BARS COVERED
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PART A
PART B
PART F
PART S5
PART U
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesANYFBA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play by the wings of a tragedy on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100

ride through bars 2-16, snare through bars 17-28, hi-hat through bars 29-34, ride through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-41 and silence through bars 42-44, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91, 94 and 97-104 -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    97
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
by the wings of a tragedy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 34 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- AN -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-49 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-58 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is by the wings of a tragedy?

94 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 by the wings of a tragedy hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 by the wings of a tragedy?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 34 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED