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Metamorphosis (Drum from offical bandscore) · Luna Sea

EXERCISE 10 OF 93
2-bar fill at bar 7
128 / 228 BARS COVERED
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BREAK 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
PART D
PART AC
CHORUS 3
14 groovesGDACAJBH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metamorphosis (Drum from offical bandscore) on drums

228 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-42, toms through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-136 and ride through bars 137-142, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-29, 31-35 and 37-41, and 17 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|x----x--x--x-x--|
Metamorphosis (Drum from offical bandscore) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 30, 36 and 54 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-28 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AC -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part AC and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metamorphosis (Drum from offical bandscore)?

160 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 Metamorphosis (Drum from offical bandscore) hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Metamorphosis (Drum from offical bandscore)?

27 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 30, 36 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED