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Emerald · Thin Lizzy

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove S -- Chorus
0 / 236 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 60 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART C
PART J
PART K
PART J
PART M
BREAK
CHORUS
9 groovesSJKCA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Emerald on drums

236 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 181 BPM, 3:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, toms through bars 35-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-40, toms through bars 41-54, ride through bars 55-68 and toms through bars 69-70, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 141-147, 149-155 and 157-161, and 9 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    142
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |g-g-g-g-g-g-|
HH |x-x-x-------|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HF |--------x-x-|
Emerald -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 35, 36, 37 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-55 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-104 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Emerald?

181 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Emerald hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Emerald?

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 35, 36, 37 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED