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Stasis · Pallbearer, Brett Campbell, Devin Holt, Mark Lierly, Joseph D. Rowland, Brett Campbell

Stasis · Pallbearer, Brett Campbell, Devin Holt, Mark Lierly, Joseph D. Rowland, Brett Campbell
EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
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PART D
PART D
PART M
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAFAADCM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stasis on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, ride through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-27, ride through bars 28-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-51, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-5, 11 and 18-19, and 3 more places -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4                5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x-----xx|--------x-------|
BD |x---------x-----|x-x-----------x-|
Stasis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 10, 13, 14, 20, 21 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, AA -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stasis?

125 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Stasis 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stasis?

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 10, 13, 14, 20, 21 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED