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Hebei Moqilin [Dark Qilin of Hebei] / 河北墨麒麟 · Omnipotent Youth Society (万能青年旅店)

Hebei Moqilin [Dark Qilin of Hebei] / 河北墨麒麟 · Omnipotent Youth Society (万能青年旅店)
EXERCISE 1 OF 104
Groove BX -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 240 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART C
PART S
PART BP
OUTRO
14 groovesBXSBCBP+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hebei Moqilin [Dark Qilin of Hebei] / 河北墨麒麟 on drums

240 bars, 11:30, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
11:30
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-58, toms through bars 59-60, hi-hat through bars 61-75 and ride through bars 76-84, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 153-154, 157-158 and 161-162, and 13 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    153                  154
    1.......2.......3... 1.......2.......3...
CC |x-------------------|--------------------|
RD |x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-----------|
SD |--------x-----x-----|------x-x-----------|
T1 |--------------------|------------x-------|
T2 |--------------------|------------x---x---|
FT |--------------------|----------------x---|
BD |x-----------------x-|x---------x---x---x-|
Hebei Moqilin [Dark Qilin of Hebei] / 河北墨麒麟 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

31 fills to learn, played 119 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 113 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- BX -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-46 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 12-42 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hebei Moqilin [Dark Qilin of Hebei] / 河北墨麒麟?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hebei Moqilin [Dark Qilin of Hebei] / 河北墨麒麟 hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 11:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hebei Moqilin [Dark Qilin of Hebei] / 河北墨麒麟?

31 fills to learn, played 119 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 113 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED