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Replica · Sonata Arctica

EXERCISE 3 OF 33
Groove B -- Part B
63 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART F
PART B
PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBKFS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Replica on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-103, silence through bars 104-110, toms through bars 111-113, hi-hat through bars 114-127 and snare through bars 128-129, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 18 and 23, and 19 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Replica -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 56, 76, 112, 120, 128, 136 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part F and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-73 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Replica?

154 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 Replica hard to play on drums?

46 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Replica?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 56, 76, 112, 120, 128, 136 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED