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Humanity · Broken Crown

EXERCISE 14 OF 48
Fill at bar 10 and 47 (a small one)
60 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesSMGADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Humanity on drums

105 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
83/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, snare through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26 and ride through bars 27-31, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 50-52 and 57-59, and 5 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Humanity -- 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 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-38 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-61 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Humanity?

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 Humanity hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Humanity?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED