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Guren · Gazette

EXERCISE 22 OF 47
Fill at bar 39 and 57
94 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCOEGJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Guren on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-12, silence through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-32 and ride through bars 33-39, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 33-35, and 16 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |X-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------------x--------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------x-----|
Guren -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 24, 26, 28, 30, 36 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, E -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-51 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 47-69 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Guren?

86 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 Guren hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Guren?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 24, 26, 28, 30, 36 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED