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EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
PART L
PART O
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS7UCLO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Luminary on drums

82 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 156 BPM, 3:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21, snare through bars 22-32, hi-hat through bars 33-50 and snare through bars 51-55, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23 and 50-53 -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21                       22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-----------------------|------------------------|
SD |------------g-----------|------------g---g-g-----|
BD |x-----g---g---g---g-----|g-----g---g---g-----g---|
Luminary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 24, 26 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- L, O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-32 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-50 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Luminary?

156 BPM, in 6/4, 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?

45 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 24, 26 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED