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Depths III · Silent Planet

Depths III · Silent Planet
EXERCISE 5 OF 38
2-bar fill at bar 43
21 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
8 groovesJCS9S5N+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Depths III on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 2:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-29, silence through bars 30-35, snare through bars 36-66, silence through bars 67-74 and kick and crashes through bars 75-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41, and 8 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x---|
Depths III -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 40, 43, 44 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- N, J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-49 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-76 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Depths III?

137 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 Depths III hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Depths III?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 40, 43, 44 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED