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Elegy · Architects

EXERCISE 31 OF 38
Run S71 · Outro (bars 53-58)
47 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKRBDG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elegy on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, snare through bars 28-48, silence through bars 49-52, snare through bars 53-60 and ride through bars 61-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-39 and 41-47 -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- K -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-57 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Elegy?

125 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 Elegy hard to play on drums?

60 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Elegy?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED