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Starless Aeon · Dissection

EXERCISE 4 OF 41
Groove F -- Part F
115 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 3, OUTRO
PART F
PART H
PART H
CHORUS
PART S8
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesCHAS8F+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Starless Aeon on drums

161 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-74, silence through bars 75-80, hi-hat through bars 81-97 and snare through bars 98-101, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 36 and 58-72, and 5 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Starless Aeon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 31, 32 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-20 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-58 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-82 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-90 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 98-139 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Starless Aeon?

165 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Starless Aeon hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Starless Aeon?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 31, 32 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED