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Seeds of Chaos · Cascading Misery

Seeds of Chaos · Cascading Misery
EXERCISE 8 OF 56
Join Part A to Part C (bars 7-9)
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0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
PART A
PART C
PART F
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNFCXG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seeds of Chaos on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-65, toms through bars 66-70, hi-hat through bars 71-94, snare through bars 95-112, hi-hat through bars 113-130 and ride through bars 131-148.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-45 and 113-130 -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Seeds of Chaos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 27, 50, 54, 58, 60 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-31 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 44-55 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seeds of Chaos?

125 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 Seeds of Chaos hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Seeds of Chaos?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 27, 50, 54, 58, 60 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED