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d15 · Asphera

d15 · Asphera
EXERCISE 15 OF 41
7-bar fill at bar 9
37 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART B
PART S2
PART M
PART S
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesXSANBS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play d15 on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, silence through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-33, ride through bars 34-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-46, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 30 and 50-53, and 1 more place -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------x---------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-------|
d15 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- S, AN -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-16 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 20-24 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is d15?

100 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 d15 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 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 d15?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED