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Solitude · Carp

Solitude · Carp
EXERCISE 22 OF 42
Groove O
34 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART I
CHORUS
BREAK 6
PART V
BREAK 8
PART S13
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK 9
13 groovesHIVS13S16+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Solitude on drums

77 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 63 BPM, 3:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
84/100

ride through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-16, silence through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-20 and silence through bars 21-23, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 11 and 14, and 6 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 23 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-16 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-24 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Break 6 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Break 7 and Part V -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 7 and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Solitude?

63 BPM, in 3/4, 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?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 23 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED