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PRAISES · Elevation Rhythm

EXERCISE 4 OF 38
2-bar fill at bar 2
45 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJDHS2T+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PRAISES on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-6, toms through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-20, snare through bars 21-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 21-22 and 24-29, and 1 more place -- 22.5% 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
SD |x---x---x---x---|
PRAISES -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 19 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- D, H, J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-37 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-48 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-76 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is PRAISES?

144 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 PRAISES hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 PRAISES?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 19 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED