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Initiation · Crown The Empire

Initiation · Crown The Empire
EXERCISE 23 OF 77
Join Part G to Part K (bars 15-17)
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0 / 77 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART K
PART G
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
PART G
PART S7
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesRGTACK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Initiation on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-57, silence through bars 58-64, snare through bars 65-88, toms through bars 89-95 and snare through bars 96-104, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-47, 73-79 and 81-88, and 3 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
Initiation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 23, 24 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- R, G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-73 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-18 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-52 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Initiation?

136 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 Initiation hard to play on drums?

52 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Initiation?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 23, 24 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED