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Golden · We Came As Romans

EXERCISE 4 OF 49
Groove T -- Outro
38 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T, OUTRO
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesGBTPD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Golden on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 3-5, toms through bars 6-14, snare through bars 15-17, toms through bars 18-22, snare through bars 23-32 and toms through bars 33-42, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 51-57 and 59-63, and 1 more place -- 24.5% 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---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Golden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 18, 19, 30, 33, 34 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-35 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-64 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Golden?

116 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 Golden hard to play on drums?

55 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Golden?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 18, 19, 30, 33, 34 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED