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Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12 · Atomic Heart

Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12 · Atomic Heart
EXERCISE 23 OF 109
Fill at bar 67, 198, 353 and 2 more (a small one)
234 / 439 BARS COVERED
0 / 109 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S19, CHORUS 5
PART B
CHORUS
PART X
PART S19
CHORUS 5
25 groovesFXBEM+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 5
JOIN · 22
LINK · 10
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12 on drums

439 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 9:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
439
LENGTH
9:03
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, snare through bars 49-61, toms through bars 62-63 and snare through bars 64-72, and 40 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 58 and 61, and 35 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x-x-|
Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 48, 54, 55, 56, 67, 71 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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, B, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-49 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-54 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-210 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-77 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-102 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12?

194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12 hard to play on drums?

42 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

439 bars, about 9:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12?

23 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 48, 54, 55, 56, 67, 71 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 439 BARS ANALYSED