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EXERCISE 21 OF 44
18-bar fill at bar 26
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0 / 44 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART AX
OUTRO
BREAK 3
8 groovesDAXS9S8AL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last univeral common ancestor on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
90/100

ride through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, toms through bars 14-15, ride through bars 16-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-31, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-59 and 61-63 -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57                                                               58
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----x---------------------------------------------------x-------|
RD |----------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----g-------------------x---------------------------x-----------|------------------------x-------------------------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x-x-x-x-x---x---x-x-x-x-x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-x-x-x-x---x---x-x-x-x-x---x---x-x-x-x-x---x-----------|
Last univeral common ancestor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 57 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 -- AX -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-21 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part AL -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AL -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Last univeral common ancestor?

110 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 Last univeral common ancestor hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Last univeral common ancestor?

12 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED