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Discord · After Forever

EXERCISE 6 OF 39
Groove E
66 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART V
PART X
PART S11
PART X
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesILFXT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Discord on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-12, ride through bars 13-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, snare through bars 38-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-63, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-36 and 48-50, and 3 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Discord?

120 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 Discord hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED