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Event Horizon · Heaven Pierce Her

EXERCISE 15 OF 94
Groove K (a two-bar phrase)
96 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART H
BREAK
PART H
PART AG
18 groovesOAGHMX+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 20
LINK · 6
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Event Horizon on drums

225 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-20, snare through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and snare through bars 35-43, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-41, 85-89 and 135-140, and 2 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Event Horizon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 20, 35, 42, 60, 62 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-212 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Event Horizon?

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

Is Event Horizon hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 23 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 Event Horizon?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 20, 35, 42, 60, 62 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED