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New Light · Entheos

EXERCISE 1 OF 94
Groove Q -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART AT
PART BB
PART BH
PART BR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesQBBRS4AT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Light on drums

186 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-33, ride through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-37, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 28, and 9 more places -- 6.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
New Light -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 98 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29 and 92 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- Q -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BR -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-44 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part S4 and Part AL -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Light?

215 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is New Light hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 New Light?

26 fills to learn, played 98 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29 and 92 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED