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Solitude MMXIII · Totalselfhatred

Solitude MMXIII · Totalselfhatred
EXERCISE 1 OF 95
Groove R -- Chorus
0 / 342 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 58 BARS LIT
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
16 groovesRKPAAAS+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 6
JOIN · 17
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Solitude MMXIII on drums

342 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 10:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
342
LENGTH
10:28
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-21, toms through bars 22-38, silence through bars 39-41, ride through bars 42-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-65, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70, 72 and 74, and 22 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    70
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Solitude MMXIII -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 31, 33 and 57 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- R, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-30 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-35 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-46 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-133 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Solitude MMXIII?

98 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Solitude MMXIII hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

342 bars, about 10:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 19 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 MMXIII?

19 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 31, 33 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 342 BARS ANALYSED