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Step Through the Portal and Breathe · Fallujah

EXERCISE 1 OF 111
Groove T -- Chorus
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PART D
PART N
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART BM
CHORUS 2
PART S15
PART CO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesTDCOS15AJ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Step Through the Portal and Breathe on drums

194 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
7:15
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-61, hi-hat through bars 62-68 and ride through bars 69-70, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-38, 45-47 and 53, and 7 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Step Through the Portal and Breathe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 22, 24, 28, 32, 33 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CO -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-121 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Step Through the Portal and Breathe?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Step Through the Portal and Breathe hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 7:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 25 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 Step Through the Portal and Breathe?

28 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 22, 24, 28, 32, 33 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED