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Distance & Decay · Mânelieht

Distance & Decay · Mânelieht
EXERCISE 19 OF 63
Run J1 · Part J (bars 15-19)
99 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART J
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART AD
BREAK
PART AG
OUTRO
BREAK 2
12 groovesLS15EAGAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Distance & Decay on drums

223 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 10:29 of playing on crash, ride, 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
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
10:29
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-51 and snare through bars 52-75, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 95-97 and 99-105, and 3 more places -- 17.1% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---|
Distance & Decay -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 29 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 -- E, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Distance & Decay?

75 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Distance & Decay hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 10:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Distance & Decay?

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED