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Disheartenment · Forgotten Tomb

Disheartenment · Forgotten Tomb
EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove N
0 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART U
10 groovesDJAGS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disheartenment on drums

188 bars, 12:32, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
12:32
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-60, silence through bars 61-63, hi-hat through bars 64-127, kick and crashes through bars 128-131 and hi-hat through bars 132-147, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-66, 68-70 and 80-82, and 6 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-------------x-|
Disheartenment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-17 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-39 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Disheartenment?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Disheartenment hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

188 bars, about 12:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 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 Disheartenment?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED