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going down · krysor

going down · krysor
EXERCISE 3 OF 49
Groove U -- Part U
23 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
PART F
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART AC
OUTRO
13 groovesCGUACF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play going down on drums

96 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-17 and silence through bars 18-21, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 11-14 and 66-69, and 2 more places -- 16.1% 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+a
CC |x-----x---x-----|
HH |------------x-x-|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-|
going down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 30, 36, 37 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-18 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-43 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-50 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-66 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-79 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is going down?

185 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 going down hard to play on drums?

54 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 going down?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 30, 36, 37 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED