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Concrete Soil · Cryptoryx

Concrete Soil · Cryptoryx
EXERCISE 9 OF 77
Groove H -- Part H
40 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART H
PART B
PART G
PART H
PART M
PART Q
PART Z
CHORUS
PART AH
OUTRO
12 groovesAEASBAHM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Concrete Soil on drums

137 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 202 BPM, 2:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-37, ride through bars 38-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, ride through bars 73-80 and snare through bars 81-82, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-88, 91-93 and 96 -- 7.4% 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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RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Concrete Soil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 38, 39, 40 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-25 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-31 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 24-45 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Concrete Soil?

202 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Concrete Soil hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Concrete Soil?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 38, 39, 40 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED