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Departure · Trivium

EXERCISE 1 OF 79
Groove AI -- Part AI
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PART A
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AF
PART AI
PART AI
PART AI
PART AM
OUTRO
14 groovesFXAILK+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Departure on drums

244 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 5:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, silence through bars 15-18, ride through bars 19-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-50 and ride through bars 51-57, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 130-137, 146-152 and 162-168 -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    131
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Departure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 6, 12, 24, 25, 33, 42 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- AI, X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-35 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-78 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-81 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Departure?

184 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 hard to play on drums?

61 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 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?

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 6, 12, 24, 25, 33, 42 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED