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Duality (Standard tuning) · JA

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove U -- Chorus
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PART E
PART I
PART P
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesUIPEAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Duality (Standard tuning) on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-10, toms through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-32, hi-hat through bars 33-80 and snare through bars 81-87, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-53, 55 and 57, and 14 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------x-----|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Duality (Standard tuning) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26 and 29 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 -- U -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 10-34 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Duality (Standard tuning)?

131 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 (Standard tuning) hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

152 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Duality (Standard tuning)?

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED