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Final Stand · Cinder

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove K -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesKOCS17F+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Final Stand on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
82/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-26 and silence through bars 27-28, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-48 and 74-76, and 17 more places -- 42.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Final Stand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 33, 49, 57 and 9 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part S3 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-34 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 4 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-74 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Final Stand?

140 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 Final Stand hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Final Stand?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 33, 49, 57 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED