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Re[ve[alite] · Alternative Competition 7

EXERCISE 23 OF 61
Run A2 · Chorus 2 (bars 33-36)
66 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART W
PART L
PART Y
PART AA
OUTRO
10 groovesALVAAW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Re[ve[alite] on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-106 and ride through bars 107-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-39, 46-47 and 90-91, and 3 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|x---------------|
HH |o---o-x--xo-o---|x---o-x---x--o-x|
SD |----x-------x-xx|----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x---x-----|x-----x------x--|
HF |--xx----x------x|--xx----xx--x---|
Re[ve[alite] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 36 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 -- R (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-36 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Re[ve[alite]?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Re[ve[alite] hard to play on drums?

63 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Re[ve[alite]?

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED