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GATES OF PARADISE · While She Sleeps

EXERCISE 9 OF 67
Groove B -- Part B
39 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART S17
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesCS17AFV+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play GATES OF PARADISE on drums

163 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-16, silence through bars 17-19, snare through bars 20-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43 and snare through bars 44-59, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 36, and 5 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
GATES OF PARADISE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 23, 27, 31, 33, 47, 51 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-35 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-60 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is GATES OF PARADISE?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 GATES OF PARADISE hard to play on drums?

52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 GATES OF PARADISE?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 23, 27, 31, 33, 47, 51 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED