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Testimony of life · Dissolved

EXERCISE 6 OF 54
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-4)
127 / 256 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART J
PART R
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART J
10 groovesCJFRO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Testimony of life on drums

256 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 12:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
12:48
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-25, ride through bars 26-31 and snare through bars 32-33, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 16-24 and 34-41, and 6 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Testimony of life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 25, 45, 52, 60, 77, 97 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-26 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-122 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Testimony of life?

80 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 Testimony of life hard to play on drums?

59 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 12:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Testimony of life?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 25, 45, 52, 60, 77, 97 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED