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Cimmerian Codex · Solstice

Cimmerian Codex · Solstice
EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART A
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLAEJX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cimmerian Codex on drums

275 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 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
275
LENGTH
8:28
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-47, toms through bars 48-49, snare through bars 50-56, hi-hat through bars 57-71 and snare through bars 72-76, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57-58 and 61-63, and 15 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------x-----------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|
Cimmerian Codex -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 24, 26, 34, 36, 40, 42 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cimmerian Codex?

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 Cimmerian Codex hard to play on drums?

64 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

275 bars, about 8:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Cimmerian Codex?

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 24, 26, 34, 36, 40, 42 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED