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Enthralled in Essence · Atheist

EXERCISE 19 OF 83
Run M1 · Part M (bars 18-22)
41 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART M
PART Q
PART W
PART AP
PART BQ
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGAPWBQQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Enthralled in Essence on drums

153 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-42, ride through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-51 and ride through bars 52-58, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 5 more places -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x---x---|
Enthralled in Essence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 26, 27 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BU (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 21-32 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Enthralled in Essence?

180 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 Enthralled in Essence hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 23 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 Enthralled in Essence?

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 26, 27 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED