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"Force Meets Presence" · Converge

EXERCISE 12 OF 53
Join Part C to Part F (bars 18-20)
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PART C
PART F
PART O
PART Q
CHORUS
PART W
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesSCQWO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Force Meets Presence" on drums

103 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 176 BPM, 2:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
88/100

snare through bars 1-19, ride through bars 20-23, silence through bars 24-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-43, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52-54 and 80-82, and 1 more place -- 12% 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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    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
"Force Meets Presence" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 27, 47, 51, 55, 64 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-31 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S4 and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-48 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Force Meets Presence"?

176 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is "Force Meets Presence" hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 "Force Meets Presence"?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 27, 47, 51, 55, 64 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED