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PROTONEMESIS · Extermination Dismemberment

EXERCISE 23 OF 61
Fill at bar 30 (a small one)
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0 / 61 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART S9
PART BD
PART M
OUTRO
10 groovesHMBDPS9+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PROTONEMESIS on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-47, snare through bars 48-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-60, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18-19 and 21, and 4 more places -- 14.2% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
PROTONEMESIS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is PROTONEMESIS?

150 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 PROTONEMESIS hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 PROTONEMESIS?

18 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED