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Distant and Longing Light · Moments In Grace

Distant and Longing Light · Moments In Grace
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBECMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Distant and Longing Light on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-65, silence through bars 66-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 19-22 and 24-25, and 11 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Distant and Longing Light -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 18, 31, 35, 39, 43 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Distant and Longing Light?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Distant and Longing Light hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Distant and Longing Light?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 18, 31, 35, 39, 43 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED