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Excavation of Encystation · Cephalotripsy xr

Excavation of Encystation · Cephalotripsy xr
EXERCISE 6 OF 84
Groove C -- Outro
52 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART AN, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART J
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AB
PART AJ
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesDXANIAB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Excavation of Encystation on drums

188 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
78/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-27 and ride through bars 28-39, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12, and 5 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.

    58
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Excavation of Encystation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 10, 13, 14, 42, 54 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-164 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-92 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 20-43 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-57 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Excavation of Encystation?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Excavation of Encystation hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 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 Excavation of Encystation?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 10, 13, 14, 42, 54 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED