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Reflection · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART R
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIMAJQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reflection on drums

148 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, ride through bars 41-55, snare through bars 56-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40 and 73-88 -- 21.9% 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-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|
Reflection -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 23, 24 and 8 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-94 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reflection?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Reflection hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Reflection?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 23, 24 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED