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Living Waves · Persefone

EXERCISE 26 OF 85
Fill at bar 49 (a small one)
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0 / 85 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART V
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART V
PART V
PART AL
CHORUS 2
PART BG
BREAK 3
15 groovesNVALS1BG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Living Waves on drums

198 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 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
198
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-37, silence through bars 38-47, hi-hat through bars 48-73, snare through bars 74-90 and silence through bars 91-92, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 9 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Living Waves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 and 69 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL, BG -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-38 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part V -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 57-150 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Living Waves?

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 Living Waves hard to play on drums?

52 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?

198 bars, about 6:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Living Waves?

23 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED