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The April Situation · Shattered Realm

The April Situation · Shattered Realm
EXERCISE 26 OF 55
Groove O
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0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART S5
PART G
PART K
PART G
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCS10GKN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The April Situation on drums

134 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-26, silence through bars 27-33, ride through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-55 and ride through bars 56-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 50, and 12 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
The April Situation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 39, 41, 45 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, E (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-14 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-35 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-63 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N and the Outro -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The April Situation?

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

Is The April Situation hard to play on drums?

47 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The April Situation?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 39, 41, 45 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED