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From the Depths · Even Grosser

EXERCISE 14 OF 48
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
46 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART F
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLIFCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From the Depths on drums

77 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 45-47, and 5 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
From the Depths -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- L, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is From the Depths?

170 BPM, in 4/4, 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 From the Depths hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 From the Depths?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED