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Darwinism · Kublai Khan Tx

EXERCISE 12 OF 43
Groove I -- Part I
76 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART P
PART S8
PART W
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBWIS11A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darwinism on drums

120 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-47 and toms through bars 48-49, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17-26 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Darwinism -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 37, 41, 47, 48, 49, 57 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, W -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-33 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-91 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-111 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Darwinism?

180 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Darwinism hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Darwinism?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 37, 41, 47, 48, 49, 57 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED