ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dasein on drums

240 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 170 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 240
LENGTH: 5:37
DIFFICULTY: 93/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-18, hi-hat through bars 19-21, ride through bars 22-28, snare through bars 29-30 and ride through bars 31-36, and 36 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-30, 37-38 and 81-82, and 6 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                               30
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---------------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x-------x-x-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-x-x-x-x---------|

Dasein -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 69 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 19 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Dasein?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dasein hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 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, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dasein?

21 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED