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Garden Route · Deafheaven

EXERCISE 6 OF 72
Groove D -- Part D
78 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART A
PART D
PART F
PART K
PART Q
PART D
PART F
PART V
OUTRO
9 groovesADFVDA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Garden Route on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-55, snare through bars 56-65, hi-hat through bars 66-95, toms through bars 96-110 and kick and crashes through bars 111-112, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 119-125, 127-129 and 131-132, and 10 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    119                              120
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|----x---x-----------------------|
Garden Route -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 58 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Garden Route?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Garden Route hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Garden Route?

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 58 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED