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Invasion · Haken

EXERCISE 28 OF 30
Run AC1 · Outro (bars 44-97)
85 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 54 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesACS6S2S1S+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Invasion on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
6:41
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-19, hi-hat through bars 20-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-46 and snare through bars 47-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-49, 51-53 and 55-57, and 1 more place -- 12.8% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Invasion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- AC -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, X -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-38 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-51 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 44 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Invasion?

120 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 Invasion hard to play on drums?

59 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 6:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Invasion?

8 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED