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Illusion · Soen

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCES1S8BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Illusion on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-21, ride through bars 22-30, hi-hat through bars 31-40, ride through bars 41-45, hi-hat through bars 46-60 and ride through bars 61-65, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 23 more places -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Illusion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 29, 37, 52, 53, 69, 85 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 52-74 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 79-110 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Illusion?

135 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 Illusion hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 29, 37, 52, 53, 69, 85 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED