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eXistenZ · Candy

EXERCISE 3 OF 42
Groove G -- Chorus
19 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGEPSB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play eXistenZ on drums

64 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 1:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
1:22
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-24, snare through bars 25-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 32 and 34, and 2 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
eXistenZ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 19 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-20 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-48 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-59 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is eXistenZ?

188 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 eXistenZ hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 1:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 eXistenZ?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 19 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED