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The Circle of A Life · Twice She Cried

The Circle of A Life · Twice She Cried
EXERCISE 16 OF 54
Groove Y
68 / 261 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART F
PART T
CHORUS
PART AP
OUTRO 2
22 groovesXS26BFT+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Circle of A Life on drums

230 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 148 BPM, 5:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-33, snare through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-89, kick and crashes through bars 90-95 and toms through bars 96-98, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46 and 48, and 2 more places -- 5.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |oooooooooooo|
SD |----x-----x-|
BD |x---x---x---|
The Circle of A Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Circle of A Life?

148 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Circle of A Life hard to play on drums?

53 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 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Circle of A Life?

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED