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Dawn · 870621345

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART S
CHORUS 5
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDSAHO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dawn on drums

113 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-5, silence through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-36, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 15-17 and 30, and 8 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 18, 24, 25 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-56 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dawn?

200 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 Dawn hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Dawn?

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 18, 24, 25 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED