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Evolution · Skyharbor

Evolution · Skyharbor
EXERCISE 24 OF 83
Fill at bar 46 and 217 (a small one)
105 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AR
PART S8
PART AW
PART BC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesSARAAS8AW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evolution on drums

221 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-34, hi-hat through bars 35-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-46 and ride through bars 47-65, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106, 108-110 and 112-114, and 7 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    106
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |--x-----x-------|
Evolution -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 73 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AR, S -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part AA -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 10 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Evolution?

160 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 Evolution hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Evolution?

22 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 73 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED