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Embryectomasaphy · Cystotomy

EXERCISE 5 OF 42
Groove N -- Part N
66 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART L, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDLNGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Embryectomasaphy on drums

112 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48 and kick and crashes through bars 49-65, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 9 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21                               22
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-------|x-------x---x-x---------x-------|
Embryectomasaphy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 36 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-37 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Embryectomasaphy?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Embryectomasaphy hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Embryectomasaphy?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 36 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED