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Evon · Blackmail

Evon · Blackmail
EXERCISE 12 OF 50
Groove G
89 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART H
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART P
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMHCPT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evon on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:43 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-40, silence through bars 41-43, ride through bars 44-69, silence through bars 70-73 and snare through bars 74-86, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-79, 81-86 and 120-126, and 2 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Evon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 43 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M, H, P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-79 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-149 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-110 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 106-123 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Evon?

100 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 Evon hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Evon?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 43 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED