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Stone Heart Part II · AA Le Composer

EXERCISE 4 OF 35
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
22 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART M
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBTAFMAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stone Heart Part II on drums

69 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:15
DIFFICULTY
90/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-48, toms through bars 49-57 and snare through bars 58-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-74 -- 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.

    63
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x---x---x-------x---x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x---x-------------------|
Stone Heart Part II -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- AF -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stone Heart Part II?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Stone Heart Part II hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Stone Heart Part II?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED