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Katharsis · Dysmn

Katharsis · Dysmn
EXERCISE 36 OF 76
Groove O
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART V
CHORUS 4
PART AG
OUTRO
12 groovesGHPAAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Katharsis on drums

148 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-47, hi-hat through bars 48-63, snare through bars 64-95, ride through bars 96-103 and snare through bars 104-148.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 18-19 and 26, and 27 more places -- 23.5% 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 |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
Katharsis -- 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 5, 6, 14, 17, 21, 27 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-9 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 4 and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Katharsis?

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

Is Katharsis hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Katharsis?

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 17, 21, 27 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED