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Grand Messe · Anakreenskyrider

EXERCISE 16 OF 66
Groove H
106 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART U
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCAUYM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grand Messe on drums

170 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-28, toms through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-36 and ride through bars 37-39, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 33-35, and 10 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Grand Messe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 24, 26, 32 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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, A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-79 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-132 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Grand Messe?

155 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 Grand Messe hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Grand Messe?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 24, 26, 32 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED