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The Autumn Song · Ellegarden

The Autumn Song · Ellegarden
EXERCISE 12 OF 33
Run C1 · Part C (bars 13-15)
90 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEGCAP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Autumn Song on drums

120 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 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
120
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-96, ride through bars 97-99, hi-hat through bars 100-112 and snare through bars 113-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 49-63 and 67-72, and 3 more places -- 45% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-----|
The Autumn Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 47, 48, 64, 65, 66 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-49 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 45-74 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-92 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Autumn Song?

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 Autumn Song hard to play on drums?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 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 The Autumn Song?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 47, 48, 64, 65, 66 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED