ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cementary Gates Cut on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 123
LENGTH: 4:06
DIFFICULTY: 69/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-54, toms through bars 55-56, hi-hat through bars 57-90, ride through bars 91-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41, 45 and 49, and 5 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74                                               75
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------X-----------X-----------|
HH |------------x-----------X-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------------------------------|
SD |------------------------X-----------------------|------------------------X-----------X-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|x-----x-----------x-----------------------------|

Cementary Gates Cut -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 27, 39, 55, 56, 64, 72 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part H and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part H and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part Q and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part H and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Cementary Gates Cut?

120 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 Cementary Gates Cut hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 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, 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 Cementary Gates Cut?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 27, 39, 55, 56, 64, 72 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED