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Cut Their Grain And Place Fire Therein · Weakling

EXERCISE 19 OF 120
Groove F -- Part F
155 / 300 BARS COVERED
0 / 120 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 3, CHORUS 4
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesCAZHAJR+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 3
JOIN · 19
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cut Their Grain And Place Fire Therein on drums

300 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 12:40 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 how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
12:40
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-39, snare through bars 40-44, hi-hat through bars 45-47, snare through bars 48-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-81, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 41-48 and 50, and 15 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Cut Their Grain And Place Fire Therein -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

31 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 28 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-197 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cut Their Grain And Place Fire Therein?

95 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 Cut Their Grain And Place Fire Therein hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

300 bars, about 12:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 27 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 Cut Their Grain And Place Fire Therein?

31 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 28 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 300 BARS ANALYSED