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Rū Ana Te Whenua · Alien Weaponry

Rū Ana Te Whenua · Alien Weaponry
EXERCISE 9 OF 78
Groove C (a two-bar phrase)
58 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART S
PART Q
PART S
PART AL
PART BA
OUTRO
16 groovesKS18SQBA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rū Ana Te Whenua on drums

212 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-30, silence through bars 31-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-88, toms through bars 89-98 and snare through bars 99-102, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-57 -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
Rū Ana Te Whenua -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 42, 75, 89, 90, 94, 97 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 17-34 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-79 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rū Ana Te Whenua?

180 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 Rū Ana Te Whenua hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 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 Rū Ana Te Whenua?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 42, 75, 89, 90, 94, 97 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED