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Servant Of This Sentience · Rings Of Saturn

EXERCISE 20 OF 44
Groove Q
57 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART R
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBXRY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Servant Of This Sentience on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4 and snare through bars 5-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 5 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21                               22
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
BD |xxx-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|xxx-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxxxxx|
Servant Of This Sentience -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Servant Of This Sentience?

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 Servant Of This Sentience hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Servant Of This Sentience?

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED