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Idylles Et Utopies (Live Version) · Atherakia

EXERCISE 17 OF 35
Fill at bar 121 (a small one)
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0 / 35 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART S1
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
8 groovesFS1DNH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Idylles Et Utopies (Live Version) on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-48, hi-hat through bars 49-65, ride through bars 66-89, hi-hat through bars 90-97 and ride through bars 98-119, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 66-89, 98-120 and 122-128, and 2 more places -- 58.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    66                                               67
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------x-----------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |------------------------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
HH |------o-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x--------g-g------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------------|x-----------------------x-----x--------x--------|
Idylles Et Utopies (Live Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 97, 121, 133, 141 and 169.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 98-134 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Idylles Et Utopies (Live Version)?

120 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 Idylles Et Utopies (Live Version) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Idylles Et Utopies (Live Version)?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 97, 121, 133, 141 and 169.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED