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Sempiternal beings (Ver. 2) · Haken

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove BB -- Part BB (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 58 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART BB
PART A
PART H
PART F
CHORUS
PART S15
PART BB
BREAK 8
17 groovesS19ACBBFA+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sempiternal beings (Ver. 2) on drums

229 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
8:20
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-43, hi-hat through bars 44-52, snare through bars 53-60, hi-hat through bars 61-68 and toms through bars 69-76, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 142-163 -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    142                                           143
    1...........2...........3...........4........ 1...........2...........3...........4...........5.....
HH |x--g--g--x--g--g--x--g--g--x-g-g-x-g-g-x-g-g-|x--g--g--x--g--g--x--g--g--x--g--g--x-g-g-x-g-g-x-g-g-|
Sempiternal beings (Ver. 2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 28, 53, 55, 57, 59 and 7 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-24 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-68 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 5 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sempiternal beings (Ver. 2)?

130 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 Sempiternal beings (Ver. 2) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 8:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Sempiternal beings (Ver. 2)?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 28, 53, 55, 57, 59 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED