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Promise You This · Exodus

EXERCISE 1 OF 97
Groove K -- Chorus
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PART C
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART I
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKSCIE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Promise You This on drums

304 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
304
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-33, toms through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-63, snare through bars 64-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-97, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-65, 80 and 96, and 16 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Promise You This -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 49, 63, 79, 81, 95, 97 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- K, S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-148 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-80 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-100 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Promise You This?

230 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 Promise You This hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

304 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Promise You This?

28 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 49, 63, 79, 81, 95, 97 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 304 BARS ANALYSED