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Cyclone · Gaerea

EXERCISE 2 OF 71
Groove N -- Part N
26 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
PART S2
PART F
PART P
PART N
PART T
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesABNFPT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cyclone on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
91/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-26, toms through bars 27-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-75, 113-115 and 121-123, and 3 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Cyclone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 19 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cyclone?

150 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 Cyclone hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Cyclone?

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 19 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED