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Departure Drum · Galneryus

EXERCISE 7 OF 93
Groove N -- Part N
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COUNT-IN
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART BB
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
14 groovesINS1BBP+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Departure Drum on drums

212 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-13, toms through bars 14-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-17, toms through bars 18-22, snare through bars 23-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 35 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 67-68, and 13 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Departure Drum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 63 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-33 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-70 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Departure Drum?

178 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 Departure Drum hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Departure Drum?

22 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED