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I DECLARE GODDESS · Unk

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove D -- Part D
0 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G, PART Q
PART D
PART G
PART Q
PART S5
PART U
PART D
PART G
OUTRO
11 groovesS13GUDS5+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I DECLARE GODDESS on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-7, hi-hat through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-23 and snare through bars 24-25, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 18-19, and 2 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
I DECLARE GODDESS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 7, 12, 13, 15, 17 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-24 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I DECLARE GODDESS?

125 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 I DECLARE GODDESS hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 DECLARE GODDESS?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 7, 12, 13, 15, 17 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED