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Color Slowly Fading · concealer.

Color Slowly Fading · concealer.
EXERCISE 27 OF 57
Join Part J to Part M (bars 61-63)
89 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART M
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJWRF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Color Slowly Fading on drums

129 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-51, hi-hat through bars 52-53, snare through bars 54-71 and toms through bars 72-73, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 25, 33 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-55 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-98 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Color Slowly Fading?

170 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 Color Slowly Fading hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Color Slowly Fading?

13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 25, 33 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED