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Giants Among Common Men · Jamies Elsewhere

Giants Among Common Men · Jamies Elsewhere
EXERCISE 27 OF 73
Groove R -- Part R
52 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS, PART R
PART H
CHORUS
PART U
PART R
PART AI
11 groovesWHUAIC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Giants Among Common Men on drums

107 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-34, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-51, 53 and 55, and 3 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--xxx---x---x---|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Giants Among Common Men -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-10 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part H and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Giants Among Common Men?

180 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 Giants Among Common Men hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Giants Among Common Men?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED