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Dust And Echoes · Akkirus Risen

EXERCISE 9 OF 25
Groove F
100 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART S4
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDKAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dust And Echoes on drums

129 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
41/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-41, silence through bars 42-48, snare through bars 49-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-95 and snare through bars 96-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-40 and 65-71, and 5 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x-x-|--x-x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|--x---x-------x-|
Dust And Echoes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 72, 96 and 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- G, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 25-84 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dust And Echoes?

165 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 Dust And Echoes hard to play on drums?

41 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Dust And Echoes?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 72, 96 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED