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EXERCISE 2 OF 67
Groove AM -- Part AM
14 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AM
PART B
PART G
PART J
PART T
PART X
CHORUS
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesACAMMAOX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ESP Ion Age on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
89/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-13, toms through bars 14-19, snare through bars 20-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-30, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 58-61 and 66-68, and 1 more place -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
SD |---x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x--|
BD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
ESP Ion Age -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 13, 14, 15 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-78 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 14-23 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ESP Ion Age?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 ESP Ion Age hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 ESP Ion Age?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 13, 14, 15 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED