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De Profundis · Anakreenskyrider

EXERCISE 12 OF 26
2-bar fill at bar 75
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0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S5
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S5
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDAKS5J+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play De Profundis on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
34/100

snare through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-45, silence through bars 46-48, hi-hat through bars 49-69, silence through bars 70-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-44, 49-59 and 61-68, and 1 more place -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|
HH |o---o-----------|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-------x---|
De Profundis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 75, 76, 100 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-69 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 69-94 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is De Profundis?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 De Profundis hard to play on drums?

34 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 De Profundis?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 75, 76, 100 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED