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Evander · Title Fight

EXERCISE 8 OF 29
Groove F
59 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGAOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evander on drums

94 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-44, snare through bars 45-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 13 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----g---g---g---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x---x-|
Evander -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 85 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-51 -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-86 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Evander?

195 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 Evander hard to play on drums?

61 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Evander?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 85 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED