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Golden · Huntrix

Golden · Huntrix
EXERCISE 16 OF 20
Join Chorus to Break (bars 47-49)
59 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesFBS6S1D+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Golden on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-25, silence through bars 26-28, snare through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 66-72, and 2 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33                       34
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
HF |------------------------|------------------x-----|
Golden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 73, 81 and 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Golden?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Golden hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Golden?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 73, 81 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED