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Keep Close A Wish You Can't Show To Anyone · Akkirus Risen

EXERCISE 26 OF 36
Join Part D to Part A (bars 57-59)
104 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDHIL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keep Close A Wish You Can't Show To Anyone on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-42, ride through bars 43-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-62, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 35-42 and 71-85, and 1 more place -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--xx---x----|
Keep Close A Wish You Can't Show To Anyone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 22, 26, 50 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-59 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-38 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-54 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-63 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 83-98 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Keep Close A Wish You Can't Show To Anyone?

102 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 Keep Close A Wish You Can't Show To Anyone hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Keep Close A Wish You Can't Show To Anyone?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 22, 26, 50 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED