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Bye Bye Babylon · Cryoshell

Bye Bye Babylon · Cryoshell
EXERCISE 3 OF 39
Groove H -- Part H
69 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
BREAK
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesENHS4W+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bye Bye Babylon on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, silence through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-77 and toms through bars 78-83, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 16, and 20 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Bye Bye Babylon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 39, 47, 63, 77, 78, 79 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-18 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bye Bye Babylon?

130 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Bye Bye Babylon hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bye Bye Babylon?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 39, 47, 63, 77, 78, 79 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED