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Illuminate · Leprous

EXERCISE 19 OF 26
Groove I
50 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K
PART A
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS7GAKB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Illuminate on drums

94 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 133 BPM, 4:14 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-43, hi-hat through bars 44-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-55 and silence through bars 56-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13 -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
SD |ggggggXgggggggggggXggggg|
BD |x-xx-xx-xx-x-x-xx--x---x|
Illuminate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 33.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Illuminate?

133 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Illuminate hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Illuminate?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 33.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED