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Ceremony (Album Version) · New Order

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
5 groovesCEFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ceremony (Album Version) on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
81/100

hi-hat through bars 3-150 and kick and crashes through bars 151-153.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20, 22 and 24, and 2 more places -- 36.4% 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 |xxxxXxxxxx-x-x-x|
SD |--------------x-|
T1 |----------x-----|
T2 |------------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Ceremony (Album Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 52, 88, 96, 100, 136 and 150.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 90-121 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ceremony (Album Version)?

141 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 Ceremony (Album Version) hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Ceremony (Album Version)?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 52, 88, 96, 100, 136 and 150.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED