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Premonitions · Synestia

Premonitions · Synestia
EXERCISE 25 OF 85
Fill at bar 57
72 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
PART S5
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
17 groovesBEULS1+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 19
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Premonitions on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-23, ride through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-30, silence through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-71, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 16-17 and 41-44, and 6 more places -- 18.1% 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---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Premonitions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 33, 35, 46 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part E and Part S5 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-30 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-45 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-59 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-62 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Premonitions?

100 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 Premonitions hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Premonitions?

20 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 33, 35, 46 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED