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Doomsday · Architects

EXERCISE 20 OF 52
4-bar fill at bar 53
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0 / 52 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART S3
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART V
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBACVAFS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doomsday on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 3-18, toms through bars 19-20, silence through bars 21-27, ride through bars 28-36, snare through bars 37-56 and toms through bars 57-58, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 18 more places -- 17.8% 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+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxx---xxxxxx|
Doomsday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 12, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part S3 and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-46 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Doomsday?

90 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 Doomsday hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 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 Doomsday?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 12, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED