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Metamorphosis · Luna Sea

EXERCISE 5 OF 92
Groove H -- Part H
78 / 227 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART Y
CHORUS
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART AE
CHORUS 5
PART Y
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
15 groovesDHYAWAE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metamorphosis on drums

227 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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-42, toms through bars 43-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and snare through bars 65-66, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-29, and 15 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Metamorphosis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 30, 36 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-30 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-43 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-58 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metamorphosis?

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 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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?

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 30, 36 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED