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Lunatic Gate · Janne Da Arc

Lunatic Gate · Janne Da Arc
EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove V -- Chorus
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PART B
PART F
PART N
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesVNSFB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lunatic Gate on drums

178 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-46 and ride through bars 47-66, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-52, 55-57 and 59-61, and 8 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---xx|
Lunatic Gate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- V -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lunatic Gate?

173 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 Lunatic Gate hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Lunatic Gate?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED