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Requiem · LANDMVRKS

EXERCISE 14 OF 67
Fill at bar 32
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0 / 67 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART P
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AE
PART S15
18 groovesKAEPIS1+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Requiem on drums

169 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-61 and 87-92 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Requiem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 32, 47, 48 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 3 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-49 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-69 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Requiem?

175 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 Requiem hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Requiem?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 32, 47, 48 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED