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Eternity · Alex Warren

EXERCISE 6 OF 10
Run A1 · Part A (bars 29-33)
45 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S3
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesDS7CAS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eternity on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 1:53 of playing, on crash, floor tom and kick.

5 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
5/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-19, toms through bars 20-47 and silence through bars 48-58, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-23, 28 and 35-39, and 4 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |x-----x-----x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
Eternity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- D, F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Eternity?

138 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 Eternity hard to play on drums?

5 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, floor tom and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED