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Emersyn 1 · Emerleb

Emersyn 1 · Emerleb
EXERCISE 6 OF 19
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-21)
25 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
BREAK 3
7 groovesS7GCS6S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Emersyn 1 on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-21, ride through bars 22-29, toms through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-38, ride through bars 39-49 and silence through bars 50-51, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 11-12, and 2 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 45.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 48-66 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Emersyn 1?

93 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Emersyn 1 hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Emersyn 1?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED