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Circumstances · Rush

EXERCISE 12 OF 67
Fill at bar 14 and 46 (a small one)
36 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS
PART J
PART O
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesWS6JANN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Circumstances on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-26, ride through bars 27-31, hi-hat through bars 32-58, ride through bars 59-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 16-17 and 44-45, and 1 more place -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-oox-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Circumstances -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 14 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-52 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Circumstances?

128 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 Circumstances hard to play on drums?

57 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Circumstances?

18 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 14 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED