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Terra Incognita · Aegirson

EXERCISE 19 OF 70
Groove L
124 / 249 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART N
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAAFENAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 18
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Terra Incognita on drums

235 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, ride through bars 42-67, hi-hat through bars 68-75 and ride through bars 76-94, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 43, and 23 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Terra Incognita -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 33, 67, 75, 94, 102 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-34 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-69 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part E and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Terra Incognita?

202 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 Terra Incognita hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 Terra Incognita?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 33, 67, 75, 94, 102 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED