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Everest · Johari

Everest · Johari
EXERCISE 14 OF 43
2-bar fill at bar 41
79 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesBES1CD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everest on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-35, toms through bars 36-37, snare through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44 and snare through bars 45-69, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 35 and 43, and 9 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxx-x-xxx-xxx-x-|
Everest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 33, 36, 37, 41, 42, 44 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 51-73 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-79 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Everest?

125 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 Everest hard to play on drums?

52 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Everest?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 33, 36, 37, 41, 42, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED