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Kaisarion · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 95
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART M
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART AM
CHORUS 3
13 groovesAJWMU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 7
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kaisarion on drums

223 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
72/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-36, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 81-84 and 86, and 2 more places -- 10.4% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Kaisarion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 49 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- A, R -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-69 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-70 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kaisarion?

186 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 Kaisarion hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Kaisarion?

18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 49 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED