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Celestial Enmity · Cascading Misery

Celestial Enmity · Cascading Misery
EXERCISE 11 OF 67
Groove R -- Part R
156 / 287 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART R
CHORUS
PART R
PART AE
PART AF
PART AE
PART AF
PART AL
PART AM
CHORUS 2
11 groovesAAFAEABR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Celestial Enmity on drums

287 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:50 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
8:50
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-70, silence through bars 71-72, hi-hat through bars 73-124 and snare through bars 125-126, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 10-12, and 16 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                                                2
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------x-----------|x-----------x-----x-----------------x-----------|
Celestial Enmity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 33 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Celestial Enmity?

130 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 Celestial Enmity hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 8:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Celestial Enmity?

10 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED