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Desolation · Sightless in Shadow

Desolation · Sightless in Shadow
EXERCISE 24 OF 37
Groove W
47 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART R
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCVFRS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desolation on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, toms through bars 27-32, silence through bars 33-36, toms through bars 37-44 and snare through bars 45-50, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 2 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                        10
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-----x-----------x-|x---x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
Desolation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 14 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-45 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED