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Entropy · boing

Entropy · boing
EXERCISE 8 OF 100
Groove C -- Part C
69 / 298 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART AG
PART AL
PART BB
PART BF
CHORUS 3
PART J
22 groovesEJPBBBF+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 20
LINK · 10
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Entropy on drums

285 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 6:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
6:35
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-44, toms through bars 45-71, silence through bars 72-104, kick and crashes through bars 105-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-195, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 54-56, and 5 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----x-----------------|
FT |------------x-----x-----------------|
BD |x--x--x-----x-----x-----------------|
Entropy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 30, 42, 45, 49, 75, 97 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- J, P -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 6-29 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-63 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Entropy?

165 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 Entropy hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

285 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 28 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 Entropy?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 30, 42, 45, 49, 75, 97 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 285 BARS ANALYSED