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Garden · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 27 OF 41
Run I2 · Part I (bars 118-133)
292 / 350 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDIKLO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Garden on drums

350 bars at 271 BPM -- fast, and 5:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
271 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
350
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9 and ride through bars 10-11, and 37 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-9 and 12-13, and 22 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------x-----|
HH |o---o-----------|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |----x-----x-----|
Garden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- D, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-57 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-121 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 118-208 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Garden?

271 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 Garden hard to play on drums?

61 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

350 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 350 BARS ANALYSED