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Faceless Departure · Burial Etiquette

Faceless Departure · Burial Etiquette
EXERCISE 9 OF 34
Groove F
39 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
PART G
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCWGKA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 5
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Faceless Departure on drums

96 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-31, silence through bars 32-33, ride through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-37 and ride through bars 38-39, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 5 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G, W -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-58 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Faceless Departure?

180 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 Faceless Departure hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Faceless Departure?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED