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Scylla · Hi adam

Scylla · Hi adam
EXERCISE 19 OF 67
Groove K
89 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART S
PART C
PART G
PART S
PART N
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART O
16 groovesLOGNC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scylla on drums

180 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 2-18, snare through bars 19-42, silence through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52, ride through bars 53-60 and snare through bars 61-78, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-52, 88 and 90, and 6 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Scylla -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 20, 21, 26 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- O, L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 31-43 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Scylla?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Scylla hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 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 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 Scylla?

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 20, 21, 26 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED