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Descending Upon Hades · Mendel

EXERCISE 11 OF 128
Join Part E to Part G (bars 11-13)
76 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 128 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G
PART E
PART G
PART E
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesIES14APAO+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 6
JOIN · 22
LINK · 6
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Descending Upon Hades on drums

234 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 8:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
8:08
DIFFICULTY
74/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-29 and ride through bars 30-33, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 92, 144-151 and 189-195, and 2 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    92
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Descending Upon Hades -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 98 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 -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Descending Upon Hades?

115 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Upon Hades hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 8:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 29 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 Upon Hades?

29 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED