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Great Deceiver · King Crimson

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove V -- Chorus 2
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PART A
PART K
PART P
CHORUS
PART A
PART S10
PART P
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesVAPKS10+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Great Deceiver on drums

148 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 119 BPM, 4:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
65/100

ride through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-20, silence through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, ride through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-36, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-53, 105 and 110, and 9 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x---x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Great Deceiver -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- V -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-64 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Great Deceiver?

119 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Great Deceiver hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Great Deceiver?

11 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED