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Millennium Quest · Hibria

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove G -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART M
PART AF
CHORUS 6
PART M
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
OUTRO
8 groovesGMAFOZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Millennium Quest on drums

239 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
6:49
DIFFICULTY
81/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, ride through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-40 and toms through bars 41-42, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 23-25, and 10 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M, AF -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-23 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Millennium Quest?

140 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 Millennium Quest hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 6:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Millennium Quest?

15 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED