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Luminary · Misery Signals

EXERCISE 32 OF 47
Join Part AB to Chorus (bars 57-59)
63 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB, CHORUS
PART K
PART F
BREAK 4
PART AB
CHORUS
OUTRO
12 groovesACFKABS9+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Luminary on drums

121 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-6, toms through bars 7-9, snare through bars 10-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-26, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-58 -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
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Luminary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- AB, AC -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-24 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S3 and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-43 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Luminary?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Luminary hard to play on drums?

56 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 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 Luminary?

12 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED