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Concealing Fate Part 2 - Deception · Tesseract

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 51 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBADFVLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Concealing Fate Part 2 - Deception on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-34, hi-hat through bars 35-66, snare through bars 67-73, toms through bars 74-76, snare through bars 77-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-80, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 8 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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |x--x----x--x----|----x--x----x--x|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Concealing Fate Part 2 - Deception -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 1, 2, 31, 66, 70, 71 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-44 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Concealing Fate Part 2 - Deception?

144 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 Concealing Fate Part 2 - Deception hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Concealing Fate Part 2 - Deception?

11 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 1, 2, 31, 66, 70, 71 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED