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Etterath · Labor Waste

Etterath · Labor Waste
EXERCISE 24 OF 81
Groove R
66 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
PART B
PART J
PART U
PART AG
CHORUS
PART AF
PART BQ
15 groovesAOAGAFBU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Etterath on drums

165 bars, 11:00, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
11:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-17, snare through bars 18-28, ride through bars 29-31 and snare through bars 32-35, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55, 57-59 and 61-63, and 3 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------X-----------|
BD |x--x--x--------x--x--x--|
Etterath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 7, 22, 25, 39, 40, 42 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO, BB -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 28-49 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-81 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Etterath?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Etterath hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 11:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Etterath?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 7, 22, 25, 39, 40, 42 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED