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Rebirth · Erra

EXERCISE 1 OF 77
Groove S -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART P
CHORUS
PART P
PART AB
PART I
PART AP
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
13 groovesSIAPPAX+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rebirth on drums

168 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-90, toms through bars 91-92, hi-hat through bars 93-94 and snare through bars 95-142, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-44, 46-47 and 50-52, and 5 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42               43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |--x-xxxxxxxx--x-|-x--x-x-xx--x--x|
Rebirth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AX -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-23 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part S4 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S4 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-45 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rebirth?

160 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 Rebirth hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 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 Rebirth?

18 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED