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Chapter 13/Non-Musical Silence · +44

EXERCISE 8 OF 58
Groove C
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART R
CHORUS 5
PART O
8 groovesARBOE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chapter 13/Non-Musical Silence on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, snare through bars 73-88 and ride through bars 89-112, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 45 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|
Chapter 13/Non-Musical Silence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 38, 44, 72, 76, 84 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-61 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chapter 13/Non-Musical Silence?

144 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 Chapter 13/Non-Musical Silence hard to play on drums?

56 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Chapter 13/Non-Musical Silence?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 38, 44, 72, 76, 84 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED