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From the Dust of This Planet · Car Bomb

EXERCISE 24 OF 79
Join Part E to Part T (bars 34-36)
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0 / 79 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART T
PART S2
PART E
PART T
PART V
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesWS10EBBJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From the Dust of This Planet on drums

162 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 203 BPM, 2:58 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
203 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-19, hi-hat through bars 20-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-31 and snare through bars 32-35, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-44, 47-48 and 55, and 5 more places -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
CC |x-----x-------|
SD |------x-------|
BD |xxxxx-xxxxxxx-|
From the Dust of This Planet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 7, 26, 30, 41, 50 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- W, BB -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-117 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-54 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part V and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is From the Dust of This Planet?

203 BPM, in 3/4, 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 From the Dust of This Planet hard to play on drums?

59 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 Dust of This Planet?

25 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 7, 26, 30, 41, 50 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED