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Prayer Position · Periphery

EXERCISE 21 OF 56
Join Part F to Chorus 2 (bars 32-34)
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0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART AB
PART AE
BREAK
6 groovesS9CFAEL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prayer Position on drums

162 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 215 BPM, 4:31 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bars 1-35, toms through bars 36-37, snare through bars 38-60, hi-hat through bars 61-72, snare through bars 73-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-99, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-97 -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
Prayer Position -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 18, 19, 26, 27, 33, 36 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- AE, L -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-34 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prayer Position?

215 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Prayer Position hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 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 Prayer Position?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 18, 19, 26, 27, 33, 36 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED