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Metanoia · Convictions

Metanoia · Convictions
EXERCISE 25 OF 60
Fill at bar 40 (a small one)
50 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART Q
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBMAABAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metanoia on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29, snare through bars 30-48, silence through bars 49-50 and snare through bars 51-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 17, and 6 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------x--x--x-----|
Metanoia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 16, 20, 24, 32, 38 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-100 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 47-52 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metanoia?

140 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 Metanoia hard to play on drums?

59 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 Metanoia?

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 16, 20, 24, 32, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED