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Solitude · Candlemass

EXERCISE 14 OF 23
Groove H -- Outro
70 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Solitude on drums

89 bars, 4:45, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-33, ride through bars 34-39, silence through bars 40-42 and ride through bars 43-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31 and 65-75 -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--x-----x-----|
Solitude -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 46, 52, 56 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Solitude?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Solitude 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Solitude?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 46, 52, 56 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED