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MADARA · endless dream · Ankor

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove F -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART D
PART S11
PART L
PART AB
PART AF
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFDUS11AB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play MADARA · endless dream on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 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
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-37, snare through bars 38-74 and silence through bars 75-80, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 50-52 and 66-68, and 1 more place -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x---x-x-----x-----|
MADARA · endless dream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 41, 49, 53, 57, 65 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is MADARA · endless dream?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 MADARA · endless dream hard to play on drums?

64 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 MADARA · endless dream?

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 41, 49, 53, 57, 65 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED