ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Emergence on drums

63 bars, 4:00, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO: 63 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 63
LENGTH: 4:00
DIFFICULTY: 73/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, snare through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29 and silence through bars 30-42, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5 and 7-12 -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                                                                8
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-x-----x-----x-----------x-------|x-----x-----x-----x---o-x-----x-x-----x-----x-------o-x-----x-x-|
SD |----------------x---------------------------------x-------------|----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------x-------------------x-----x-|x-----------------------------------x-----------------x-----x---|

Emergence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 22, 26, 28, 38, 40 and 8 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- E, S -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 9-46 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Bars 13-49 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Emergence?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Emergence hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Emergence?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 22, 26, 28, 38, 40 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED