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Illusion of Love · Dystopia

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
13 groovesHLRAF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Illusion of Love on drums

121 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-39 and ride through bars 40-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 81-88 and 117-119 -- 16.5% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Illusion of Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 40 and 14 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 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-34 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-49 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Illusion of Love?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Illusion of Love hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 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 Illusion of Love?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED