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Coven - · Thornhill

EXERCISE 13 OF 59
Groove I
51 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART P
PART AF
OUTRO
7 groovesCBGPAF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coven - on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
81/100

snare through bars 1-25, toms through bars 26-31, ride through bars 32-33, snare through bars 34-57, hi-hat through bars 58-65 and snare through bars 66-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 9, and 12 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------X-----------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-x-x---x-|
Coven - -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 13, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 13 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-85 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Coven -?

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Coven - hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 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 Coven -?

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 13, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED