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EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 41 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART U
PART Y
PART S5
PART AF
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAYS7AFK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elysium (Official) on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17, toms through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32 and snare through bars 33-35, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 86-88 and 90, and 1 more place -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x--x--x-|-x--x---x---x-xx|
T2 |----------------|------xx-xx-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Elysium (Official) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 32 more.

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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part U and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-60 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-88 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Elysium (Official)?

127 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 Elysium (Official) 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Elysium (Official)?

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED