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Eternal Return · Jabolin

Eternal Return · Jabolin
EXERCISE 8 OF 55
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-9)
113 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIMDKA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eternal Return on drums

205 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-35, ride through bars 36-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-68, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-32, 34 and 47, and 15 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
Eternal Return -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 33, 69, 70 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- I, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-65 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eternal Return?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Eternal Return hard to play on drums?

62 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 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 Eternal Return?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 33, 69, 70 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED