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Genesis 12a · CKY (Camp Kill Yourself)

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove W -- Chorus
0 / 121 BARS COVERED
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PART A
PART I
PART N
PART I
PART D
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesWNAAID+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Genesis 12a on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
34/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-19, hi-hat through bars 20-25, snare through bars 26-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-53, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-63, 65-67 and 70-75, and 4 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x---|
BD |x---x-----------|
Genesis 12a -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, AA, AB -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-64 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-64 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Genesis 12a?

107 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 Genesis 12a hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Genesis 12a?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED