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Eclipse 2 · Brand Of Sacrifice

Eclipse 2 · Brand Of Sacrifice
EXERCISE 5 OF 30
Groove D
25 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART AD
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesGAAJADS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eclipse 2 on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, ride through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-34, toms through bars 35-38 and snare through bars 39-45, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18 -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
FT |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Eclipse 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A, AJ -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part AD -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AD -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-71 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eclipse 2?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Eclipse 2 hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Eclipse 2?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED