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Eternal Refuge · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 5 OF 63
Groove D -- Part D
16 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
PART H
PART Q
PART D
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AF
OUTRO 2
10 groovesSDAHQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eternal Refuge on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-68, snare through bars 69-73, hi-hat through bars 74-75, snare through bars 76-85, hi-hat through bars 86-95 and silence through bars 96-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7 and 9-15 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                                2
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x-x-x-x---------|
T1 |--------------------------------|------------------------x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Eternal Refuge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 23, 42, 66 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eternal Refuge?

130 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 Eternal Refuge hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Eternal Refuge?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 23, 42, 66 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED