ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Singularity on drums

262 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 218 BPM, 6:57 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 218 BPM
TIME: 6/4
BARS: 262
LENGTH: 6:57
DIFFICULTY: 49/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-40, hi-hat through bars 41-65, kick and crashes through bars 66-80 and toms through bars 81-104, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 93-94, 96-97 and 99-100, and 3 more places -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    93                       94
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|x-----------------------|
SD |--------x---------------|x---------------x-------|
T1 |--x-----------------x---|------------------x-----|
T2 |------x---x-------------|--x---------x---------x-|
FT |----g-------x-x-g-x-----|----x-x---x---x-----x---|
BD |x---------------------x-|--------x---------------|

Singularity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AU, AZ -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 7-16 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 13-22 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part H and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
Through Part H and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part N and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 11 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Singularity?

218 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Singularity hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

262 bars, about 6:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Singularity?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 262 BARS ANALYSED