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Desolation · Imminence

EXERCISE 13 OF 58
Groove Q -- Part Q
65 / 132 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJFZAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desolation on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-27, toms through bars 28-30, snare through bars 31-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33-37 and 39-43, and 14 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-------------|
Desolation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 20, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-38 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 31-59 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-70 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Desolation?

130 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 Desolation hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Desolation?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 20, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED