ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Między promieniami on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 100 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 108
LENGTH: 4:19
DIFFICULTY: 73/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, ride through bars 27-41 and snare through bars 42-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-40 and 84-97 -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27                                               28
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
SD |------g-----x-----------------g-----x-----------|------g-----x-----------------g-----x-----------|
BD |x-----x-x-x-------x-----x-----x-x-x-------x-----|x-----x-x-x-------x-----x-----x-x-x-------x-----|

Między promieniami -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 42.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
Bars 17-71 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 21-46 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 43-64 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part D and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Między promieniami?

100 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 Między promieniami hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Między promieniami?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 42.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED