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Kenopsia (Capstone Ver.) · Robertson

EXERCISE 14 OF 62
Fill at bar 20 (a small one)
42 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART H
PART S2
PART P
CHORUS
PART AE
PART P
PART AL
PART AP
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesWHPAPAL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kenopsia (Capstone Ver.) on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
87/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, silence through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-103 and silence through bars 104-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19 -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------x-----------|
HH |------------o-----------------------------------|
SD |---g--------x--g-----g-----x-----g--x--------g--|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----------------------|
Kenopsia (Capstone Ver.) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 20, 22 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- H -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part S2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 23-40 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AE -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kenopsia (Capstone Ver.)?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Kenopsia (Capstone Ver.) hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 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 Kenopsia (Capstone Ver.)?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 20, 22 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED