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Horizons · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART A
PART G
PART V
PART AA
PART Q
PART S14
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesDQGAV+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Horizons on drums

201 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-25, toms through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and snare through bars 58-73, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 61, and 11 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    138
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|
Horizons -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 26, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-162 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-42 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-61 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Horizons?

130 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 Horizons hard to play on drums?

64 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 6:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Horizons?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 26, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED