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Sacred Generation · Amalgamation

Sacred Generation · Amalgamation
EXERCISE 11 OF 19
Join Part H to Part S5 (bars 63-65)
89 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART S5
CHORUS
PART H
PART S5
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDS10HAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sacred Generation on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, ride through bars 4-7, hi-hat through bars 8-65, silence through bars 66-67 and ride through bars 68-69, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-23, 33-47 and 73-87 -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---x---x---x---|x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
FT |x---------------|----------------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x-----x---x-----|
Sacred Generation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 48, 88 and 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 63-72 -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 72-121 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sacred Generation?

130 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 Sacred Generation hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 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 Sacred Generation?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 48, 88 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED