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Drone · Karnivool

EXERCISE 9 OF 38
Groove F
40 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART Y
PART E
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS6JCYEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drone on drums

140 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 4:34 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-51, toms through bars 52-58, hi-hat through bars 59-75 and snare through bars 76-87, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 6 more places -- 17.9% 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+a5e+a6e+a
HH |g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------------------|
Drone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drone?

180 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Drone hard to play on drums?

42 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Drone?

6 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED