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In Absentia ΛΟΓΟΣ · Heaven Pierce Her

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove H -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART C
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesHEMS7C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Absentia ΛΟΓΟΣ on drums

63 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 2:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 1-23, hi-hat through bars 24-52 and silence through bars 53-63.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 28 and 31-32, and 3 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25                   26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x-------------------|--------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---|
HH |--x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x---x-|
SD |--------x-----------|----x-----------x---|
BD |x-----x-----x-x---x-|x-------x-x---x-----|
In Absentia ΛΟΓΟΣ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-16 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-25 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-45 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is In Absentia ΛΟΓΟΣ?

150 BPM, in 5/4, 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 In Absentia ΛΟΓΟΣ hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 In Absentia ΛΟΓΟΣ?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED