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PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION · FINAL RESTING PLACE

EXERCISE 21 OF 65
Fill at bar 23 (a small one)
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CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART O
PART D
PART O
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBODVJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION on drums

137 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-23, snare through bars 24-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-47, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 14-16, and 4 more places -- 15.6% 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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CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 17, 23 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-52 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 29-40 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-51 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION?

155 BPM, in 4/4, 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 PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 17, 23 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED