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Meteor of Hope · Veilborn

EXERCISE 3 OF 68
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
32 / 220 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
PART V
PART Z
PART AK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesHPZS14AK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Meteor of Hope on drums

220 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
8:10
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-39, hi-hat through bars 40-65 and toms through bars 66-86, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-36 and 149-164 -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21           22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x---x---x---|------------------x-|
SD |x---x---x---|------x-------------|
T1 |------------|--------------x-x---|
T2 |------------|----x---x---x-------|
FT |------------|x-x-------x---------|
BD |x-xxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Meteor of Hope -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 20, 39, 40, 52, 54, 56 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-21 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Meteor of Hope?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Meteor of Hope hard to play on drums?

67 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?

220 bars, about 8:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Meteor of Hope?

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 20, 39, 40, 52, 54, 56 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED