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Duality · El Estepario Siberiano

Duality · El Estepario Siberiano
EXERCISE 9 OF 59
Groove H
52 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AO
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPIADAW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Duality on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-77, snare through bars 78-85, toms through bars 86-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-110, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 39-41, and 4 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31                                               32
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------x-----|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x--------------x--------x--------x--|------------x--------------x--------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----------x--x-----x--x-----|x--------x--------x-----------x-x-x-------x-----|
Duality -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 26, 27 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Duality?

145 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 Duality hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Duality?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 26, 27 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED