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Pax Non Est Ab Irato · Ab Irato

EXERCISE 25 OF 27
Join Chorus 2 to Break 9 (bars 160-162)
134 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK 9
PART A
PART B
PART B
PART S6
PART G
CHORUS
PART K
PART K
CHORUS 2
BREAK 9
16 groovesIBKS6A+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pax Non Est Ab Irato on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
21/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-27, snare through bars 28-32, silence through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-46, silence through bars 47-48 and kick and crashes through bars 49-84, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-32, 35-46 and 64, and 2 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Pax Non Est Ab Irato -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S6 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 83-115 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 114-153 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Pax Non Est Ab Irato?

150 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 Pax Non Est Ab Irato hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED