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Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy · Return To Forever

Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy · Return To Forever
EXERCISE 14 OF 64
Groove Q -- Part Q
32 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART S10
PART BF
PART BK
PART BX
13 groovesIBKQS10BX+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26 and toms through bars 27-28, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16 -- 5.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------x--------------x--------x--|
BD |x--------x--------------x--------x--------------|
Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 5, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CI -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-17 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-53 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 21-32 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-60 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy?

136 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 Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy?

12 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 5, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED