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Doxa · Monuments
EXERCISE 19 OF 58
Groove P
74 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART M
PART S
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBMACSS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doxa on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61 and snare through bars 62-77, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 10, and 2 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    102
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Doxa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 61 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-120 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part AC -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part AC -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Doxa?

125 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 Doxa hard to play on drums?

63 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Doxa?

18 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED