ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Schism (Acoustic) on drums

237 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 64 BPM, 11:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 64 BPM
TIME: 3/4
BARS: 237
LENGTH: 11:10
DIFFICULTY: 63/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-43, ride through bars 44-51, hi-hat through bars 52-67, ride through bars 68-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-101, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 20-22, and 11 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12                             13
    1...........2...........3..... 1...........2...........3...........4.....
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-x-x-|x-----x-----o-----------x-----x-----x-x-x-|
SD |------------x-----------------|------------------------x-----------------|
T1 |x-----------------------------|------------------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----|x-----------x-----------------------x-----|

Schism (Acoustic) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 80-105 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part M and Part S8 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Schism (Acoustic)?

64 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Schism (Acoustic) hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 11:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Schism (Acoustic)?

10 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED