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Engraving Ecstasy · dyscarnate

Engraving Ecstasy · dyscarnate
EXERCISE 1 OF 92
Groove AM -- Chorus
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0 / 92 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART G
PART G
PART A
PART N
CHORUS
PART AT
PART AZ
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAMGBKNAZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 8
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Engraving Ecstasy on drums

179 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
85/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-9, ride through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-17, ride through bars 18-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-29, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-76, 78-84 and 97, and 3 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Engraving Ecstasy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- AM -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-86 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Engraving Ecstasy?

240 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 Engraving Ecstasy hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 Engraving Ecstasy?

17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED