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Genetic Reconstruction · Death

EXERCISE 24 OF 34
Join Part K to Part M (bars 32-34)
38 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART M
PART D
PART F
PART I
PART K
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS8FKMQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Genetic Reconstruction on drums

94 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 122 BPM, 5:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-25, ride through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-50 and silence through bars 51-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12 and 14-17 -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Genetic Reconstruction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 13, 29, 35, 37, 39 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-26 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-42 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Genetic Reconstruction?

122 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Genetic Reconstruction hard to play on drums?

59 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 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Genetic Reconstruction?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 13, 29, 35, 37, 39 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED