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INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE · Balmora

EXERCISE 1 OF 87
Groove T -- Chorus
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PART D
PART I
PART S4
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AR
PART AY
PART BC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesTDBGARI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE on drums

148 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
78/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-23, hi-hat through bars 24-33, silence through bars 34-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-55, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 99-101 -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x--x--------|
INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 10, 12, 14, 20, 40 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- T -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-41 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE?

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

Is INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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 INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE?

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 10, 12, 14, 20, 40 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED