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Erase · Gorefest

Erase · Gorefest
EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove L -- Chorus
0 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AG
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesLDYAGQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Erase on drums

205 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-56, snare through bars 57-59, ride through bars 60-61 and snare through bars 62-63, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 27-28 and 42-48, and 5 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-34 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-42 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Erase?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Erase hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Erase?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED