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Schisma · TOOLe

Schisma · TOOLe
EXERCISE 6 OF 63
Groove I -- Part I
38 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART I
COUNT-IN
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART BO
PART BU
10 groovesKS8FBUI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Schisma on drums

206 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 6:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-69, ride through bars 70-74, hi-hat through bars 75-81, snare through bars 82-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-108, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 14 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...........2...........3.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-x-x-|
SD |------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----|
Schisma -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 49, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-75 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Schisma?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Schisma 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Schisma?

13 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 49, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED