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Lettera per una chimera · Antares

EXERCISE 11 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCIS4KS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lettera per una chimera on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, toms through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-50, silence through bars 51-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-41, 43-49 and 62, and 2 more places -- 38.9% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---xx--x---x|
Lettera per una chimera -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- I, C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Lettera per una chimera?

90 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 Lettera per una chimera hard to play on drums?

48 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Lettera per una chimera?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED