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Duel (Versus Reprise) · Heaven Pierce Her

EXERCISE 19 OF 30
Groove M
110 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHDFBN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Duel (Versus Reprise) on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
94/100

silence through bars 1-4 and ride through bars 5-133.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 53-55, and 5 more places -- 18.6% 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---------------|
RD |x-x-x-xxx-x-xxxx|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----X-----x-----|
BD |xxxx--xxx---xxx-|
Duel (Versus Reprise) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 12, 37, 38, 39, 41 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-24 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Duel (Versus Reprise)?

120 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 Duel (Versus Reprise) hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 11 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 Duel (Versus Reprise)?

2 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 12, 37, 38, 39, 41 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED