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Colony · In Flames

EXERCISE 35 OF 48
Join Part O to Chorus 4 (bars 80-82)
111 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, CHORUS 4
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART Q
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGDIKO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 11
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Colony on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-57, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 34-36, and 6 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-18 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-34 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-69 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-91 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Colony?

100 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 Colony hard to play on drums?

58 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Colony?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED