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Talisman (Original) · Rata Blanca

EXERCISE 5 OF 35
Groove F -- Part F
85 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Talisman (Original) on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-57, hi-hat through bars 58-73 and ride through bars 74-87, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-15 and 35-48, and 7 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Talisman (Original) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 57, 73 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 72-90 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Talisman (Original)?

120 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 Talisman (Original) hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 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 Talisman (Original)?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 57, 73 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED