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Gethsemane · Om

EXERCISE 12 OF 102
Join Part F to Part J (bars 25-27)
136 / 305 BARS COVERED
0 / 102 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART J
PART F
PART J
PART F
PART S8
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
16 groovesAFFAQS8J+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 20
LINK · 14
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gethsemane on drums

305 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 10:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
305
LENGTH
10:09
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-23, toms through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38 and toms through bars 39-41, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-98, 102-116 and 120-122, and 10 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    96
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
Gethsemane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 29 and 27 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 -- AF, AD -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-42 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 40-54 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part S8 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part AE and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AI -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gethsemane?

120 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 Gethsemane hard to play on drums?

44 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

305 bars, about 10:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Gethsemane?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 29 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 305 BARS ANALYSED