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Harbinger Official · Polaris

EXERCISE 11 OF 37
Hold Groove E for 8 bars -- Part E (bars 9-16)
50 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesREMIS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Harbinger Official on drums

95 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60, ride through bars 61-76 and snare through bars 77-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-32, and 1 more place -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------f-------|--------f-------|
T1 |----------------|x-------------x-|
T2 |--x-------------|x-x-x---------x-|
FT |--x-x-----------|--x-x-----------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Harbinger Official -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 42, 43 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E, M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-48 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Break and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Harbinger Official?

160 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 Harbinger Official hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 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 Harbinger Official?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 42, 43 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED