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Per Aspera Ad Inferi · Ghost

EXERCISE 7 OF 43
Groove H -- Part H
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0 / 43 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS, PART H
PART D
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesOFDZH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Per Aspera Ad Inferi on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-36, toms through bars 37-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
Per Aspera Ad Inferi -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 36, 44, 52, 53, 54 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 21-35 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Per Aspera Ad Inferi?

128 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 Per Aspera Ad Inferi hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Per Aspera Ad Inferi?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 36, 44, 52, 53, 54 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED