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Oriental Dark Flight · Demetori

EXERCISE 5 OF 61
9-bar fill at bar 13
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0 / 61 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART U
PART Y
PART AF
PART AJ
PART AN
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesBS12UYAN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oriental Dark Flight on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
93/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-19, snare through bars 20-25, ride through bars 26-31, snare through bars 32-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-41, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6 and 8-12 -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |------x---------x---------x---------x-----------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|
Oriental Dark Flight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part U -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part U -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part U -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Oriental Dark Flight?

150 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 Oriental Dark Flight hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Oriental Dark Flight?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED