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Dusk · deathpair

Dusk · deathpair
EXERCISE 1 OF 113
Groove T -- Chorus
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PART P
PART D
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART BA
BREAK
PART AC
PART BM
PART AC
PART BM
20 groovesTRPACBA+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 26
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 6
JOIN · 19
LINK · 7
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dusk on drums

253 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, toms through bars 11-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-53, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-60, 64-66 and 68-69, and 10 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    105
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Dusk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 12, 14, 18, 22, 24 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 93 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 -- T, R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-27 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dusk?

200 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Dusk hard to play on drums?

57 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

253 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 27 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 Dusk?

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 12, 14, 18, 22, 24 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 253 BARS ANALYSED