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Manifestation · Deviation Onslaught

EXERCISE 20 OF 77
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
61 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART P
PART G
PART L
PART P
PART W
PART AB
PART AD
CHORUS
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAIWLBAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Manifestation on drums

127 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 210 BPM, 1:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
85/100

snare through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-32, ride through bars 33-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-55, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-84, 86-92 and 120-122, and 1 more place -- 16.3% 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...............
HH |o---------------o---------------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Manifestation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 18, 29, 30 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-22 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Manifestation?

210 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Manifestation hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Manifestation?

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 18, 29, 30 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED