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Take Me Back To Eden · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 27 OF 64
Groove V (a two-bar phrase)
81 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X, PART AA
PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART S16
PART L
PART X
PART AA
PART AJ
OUTRO
19 groovesJCS16XL+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me Back To Eden on drums

215 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 7:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
7:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-27, toms through bars 28-29, silence through bars 30-31, toms through bars 32-33, silence through bars 34-35 and toms through bars 36-37, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-79 and 81-100 -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------------------x-----------------------------|
Take Me Back To Eden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 48, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- J, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 54-61 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 69-141 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part S18 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part X -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part X -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take Me Back To Eden?

118 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 Take Me Back To Eden hard to play on drums?

56 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 7:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Take Me Back To Eden?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 48, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED