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King V2 · Tesseract

EXERCISE 3 OF 54
Groove N
22 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
CHORUS
PART O
PART AE
PART S5
PART AQ
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBOAOS5AQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play King V2 on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 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
189
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-38, hi-hat through bars 39-75, snare through bars 76-91, toms through bars 92-100, silence through bars 101-124 and snare through bars 125-126, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 4 more places -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-x---x-x-x-|x---x-x---x-x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |------x---x---x-|x-----x---x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
King V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- B, A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-125 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-131 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is King V2?

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 King V2 hard to play on drums?

51 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 King V2?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED