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Elegy · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 24 OF 33
Run H2 · Part H (bars 91-106)
183 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIHBAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elegy on drums

202 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10 and snare through bars 11-12, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 28 and 32, and 11 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-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

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 72, 118, 130 and 146.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- I, A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-28 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-60 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-90 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-147 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Elegy?

180 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 Elegy hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 72, 118, 130 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED