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Gelastic Syncope/Cerebral Hypoperfusion · Cream of Man

Gelastic Syncope/Cerebral Hypoperfusion · Cream of Man
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EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART A
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKAFIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gelastic Syncope/Cerebral Hypoperfusion on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-35, hi-hat through bars 36-48, snare through bars 49-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-61 and snare through bars 62-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 1 more place -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17                                               18
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------------------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------f-----------x-----------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x--x--x--x--------x-----------------|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------x-----x-----------|
Gelastic Syncope/Cerebral Hypoperfusion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 48 and 65.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-41 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gelastic Syncope/Cerebral Hypoperfusion?

150 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 Gelastic Syncope/Cerebral Hypoperfusion hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Gelastic Syncope/Cerebral Hypoperfusion?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 48 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED