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Reap What You Sow · Converge

EXERCISE 33 OF 64
Run W1 · Part W (bars 42-58)
72 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
CHORUS
PART W
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART AI
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHWAIADAU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reap What You Sow on drums

116 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-21, toms through bars 22-33, hi-hat through bars 34-39 and snare through bars 40-41, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 8 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Reap What You Sow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 15 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-41 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-73 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reap What You Sow?

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 Reap What You Sow 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Reap What You Sow?

15 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 15 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED