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I am Above · In Flames

EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
PART I
PART Q
PART H
PART J
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCHQSJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I am Above on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24 and snare through bars 25-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 5 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx-x-xxxxxxxxx|
I am Above -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-16 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-61 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I am Above?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 I am Above hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 I am Above?

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED