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Early Grave · Architects

EXERCISE 28 OF 68
Groove S
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CHORUS
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART T
PART J
PART O
PART Z
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
9 groovesBOJZAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Early Grave on drums

139 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-11, toms through bars 12-14 and hi-hat through bars 15-22, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 33, and 3 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    123
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---X---X---X---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Early Grave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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, O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-26 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Early Grave?

170 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 Early Grave 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Early Grave?

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED