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delusionalism · MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS

EXERCISE 26 OF 46
Part F into Part A with the record (bars 67-74)
135 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART A
PART A
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
PART A
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
9 groovesIAFTP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play delusionalism on drums

160 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-119, snare through bars 120-124, ride through bars 125-127 and snare through bars 128-155, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 58-60, and 8 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    120
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
delusionalism -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 53, 57, 61, 65 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-17 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-35 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-70 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-96 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 92-108 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is delusionalism?

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 delusionalism hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 delusionalism?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 53, 57, 61, 65 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED