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Discourse Is Dead · Architects

EXERCISE 13 OF 64
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 19-21)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART S9
PART X
PART Z
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBMS9S1Z+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Discourse Is Dead on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-37, toms through bars 38-39, snare through bars 40-66, silence through bars 67-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-99, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 28-30, and 6 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 19, 23, 26, 31, 35 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- B, X -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-27 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Discourse Is Dead?

124 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 Discourse Is Dead hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Discourse Is Dead?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 19, 23, 26, 31, 35 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED