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Eternal Spirits · Svalbard

Eternal Spirits · Svalbard
EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove H -- Part H
0 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AC
PART AF
11 groovesKAHXE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eternal Spirits on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, snare through bars 27-60, ride through bars 61-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-78, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25 and 70-77 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------x--------x-----x--------|
Eternal Spirits -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 35, 39, 43, 48, 49 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eternal Spirits?

146 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 Spirits hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Spirits?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 35, 39, 43, 48, 49 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED