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Dystopia‎ · Tesseract

EXERCISE 19 OF 24
Run B1 · Outro (bars 1-118)
115 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 118 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dystopia‎ on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
78/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-23, snare through bars 24-80, toms through bars 81-82 and snare through bars 83-119, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 7-8 and 10-11, and 6 more places -- 16.7% 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+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |--g--g-gx--g|
BD |x---g-x---g-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Dystopia‎ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 101 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 45 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dystopia‎?

118 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 Dystopia‎ hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Dystopia‎?

8 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 101 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED