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The Beginning · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 27 OF 49
Fill at bar 79
103 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART N
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 3
9 groovesHCANU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Beginning on drums

143 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10 and snare through bars 11-12, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-42, 45-46 and 49-50, and 6 more places -- 18.7% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |------x-------x-|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|
The Beginning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 14, 20, 28, 36, 43 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- H, A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-44 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-88 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 95-112 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Beginning?

188 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 Beginning hard to play on drums?

50 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Beginning?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 14, 20, 28, 36, 43 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED