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My Reason · Spiritfall

My Reason · Spiritfall
EXERCISE 10 OF 23
Fill at bar 48 and 108
199 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
PART S2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCES2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Reason on drums

217 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 6:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-16, hi-hat through bars 17-64, snare through bars 65-70, hi-hat through bars 71-72 and snare through bars 73-84, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 49-63 and 65-71, and 10 more places -- 70.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---g---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
My Reason -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 48, 64, 72, 80, 108 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is My Reason?

133 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 My Reason hard to play on drums?

47 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 6:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 My Reason?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 48, 64, 72, 80, 108 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED