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Divination · Providence

EXERCISE 15 OF 86
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
77 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
PART AK
PART AQ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesKPAADT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Divination on drums

198 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
83/100

ride through bars 1-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-24, silence through bars 25-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, ride through bars 37-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-40, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-36, 39-40 and 43-44, and 9 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35                               36
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|--------o-------o---------------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|x---x-------x---x---x---x---g---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Divination -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 54 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- K -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and the Break -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Divination?

125 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 Divination hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 6:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Divination?

18 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED