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Erase · Imminence

EXERCISE 18 OF 43
Groove L
80 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART N
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART R
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHFRBS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Erase on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-16, snare through bars 17-49, hi-hat through bars 50-71, snare through bars 72-106 and silence through bars 107-122, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 34-40 and 48, and 5 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Erase -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 33, 41, 49, 57, 66, 74 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Erase?

152 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?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 33, 41, 49, 57, 66, 74 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED