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Cloud Connected · In Flames

EXERCISE 13 OF 33
Fill at bar 44 and 93 (a small one)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesEIS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cloud Connected on drums

169 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, snare through bars 37-43, hi-hat through bars 44-52, snare through bars 53-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-85, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 29-35, and 16 more places -- 59.6% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Cloud Connected -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 52, 68 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-103 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 99-129 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cloud Connected?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cloud Connected hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cloud Connected?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 52, 68 and 13 more.

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