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Secular Haze · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove H -- Chorus
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0 / 47 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHMBEV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Secular Haze on drums

170 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 5:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-52, ride through bars 53-74 and snare through bars 75-92, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31-50 and 75-90, and 2 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x-x---x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----|
Secular Haze -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 30, 51, 59 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-78 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 106-146 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Secular Haze?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Secular Haze hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Secular Haze?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 30, 51, 59 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED