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Enigma · Allegro

EXERCISE 9 OF 69
Join Part A to Part E (bars 9-11)
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0 / 69 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART E
PART A
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHGEADA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Enigma on drums

188 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
85/100

hi-hat through bars 1-50, ride through bars 51-58, hi-hat through bars 59-64, toms through bars 65-66, hi-hat through bars 67-90 and ride through bars 91-98, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 43-49 and 59-62, and 6 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----xx-x--x-x--|
Enigma -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 18, 34, 42, 50, 58 and 26 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-22 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 23-43 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Enigma?

170 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Enigma hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Enigma?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 18, 34, 42, 50, 58 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED