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Compendium · Elder

EXERCISE 32 OF 104
Groove R
242 / 375 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART P
PART P
PART W
PART AC
PART AF
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
16 groovesFPWACAF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Compendium on drums

375 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 123 BPM, 10:15 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
123 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
375
LENGTH
10:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-9, hi-hat through bars 10-11, toms through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-15 and toms through bars 16-17, and 39 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 18, and 35 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    78
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-xx|
BD |x--x--x-----|
Compendium -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- F, P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-32 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Compendium?

123 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Compendium 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

375 bars, about 10:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 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 Compendium?

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 375 BARS ANALYSED