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Retreat From Relieveness · "Vorbag" Vlad Vulcan

EXERCISE 10 OF 102
Groove C -- Part C
125 / 332 BARS COVERED
0 / 102 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART S3
PART S
PART S7
CHORUS
PART AO
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAISAOCH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Retreat From Relieveness on drums

332 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 8:57 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
332
LENGTH
8:57
DIFFICULTY
72/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, silence through bars 35-48, ride through bars 49-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-114, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 138-144, 146-156 and 158-160, and 13 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    138          139
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |------o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x-----------|------------|
Retreat From Relieveness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 5, 13, 53, 57, 65, 73 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- AI, AO -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-242 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part S3 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Retreat From Relieveness?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Retreat From Relieveness hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

332 bars, about 8:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 25 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 Retreat From Relieveness?

23 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 5, 13, 53, 57, 65, 73 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 332 BARS ANALYSED