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(not AI drop C) A Proclamation of Unity · xSERAPHx

EXERCISE 21 OF 59
Fill at bar 33, 41 and 103 (a small one)
63 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART S5
PART P
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLGCPS5+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (not AI drop C) A Proclamation of Unity on drums

124 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 2-41, snare through bars 42-50, silence through bars 51-62, toms through bars 63-70, hi-hat through bars 71-87 and snare through bars 88-95, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 7 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
(not AI drop C) A Proclamation of Unity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- L, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 48-77 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-89 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-109 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is (not AI drop C) A Proclamation of Unity?

170 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 (not AI drop C) A Proclamation of Unity hard to play on drums?

52 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 (not AI drop C) A Proclamation of Unity?

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED