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Hereafter · Architects

EXERCISE 8 OF 50
Fill at bar 18 (a small one)
59 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART C
PART Q
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART X
OUTRO 2
13 groovesKCGXS1+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hereafter on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-37, toms through bars 38-39, snare through bars 40-70, silence through bars 71-74 and snare through bars 75-77, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-36 and 40-41, and 8 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|
Hereafter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 28, 38, 39, 78, 79 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part S5 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hereafter?

121 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 Hereafter hard to play on drums?

61 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Hereafter?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 28, 38, 39, 78, 79 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED