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Descending the Garden · Hespera

EXERCISE 14 OF 44
5-bar fill at bar 17 and 1 more
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CHORUS
PART G
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAQGMD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Descending the Garden on drums

92 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 2:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
96/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, toms through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, ride through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 55-57 and 63-65 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Descending the Garden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-11 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Descending the Garden?

120 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Descending the Garden hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Descending the Garden?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED