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The Dawn is Hollow · Ulcerate

The Dawn is Hollow · Ulcerate
EXERCISE 31 OF 117
Groove AA -- Part AA
111 / 268 BARS COVERED
0 / 117 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AA
PART F
PART J
PART V
PART AA
PART AK
PART AW
PART BC
CHORUS
20 groovesBYFAWJAA+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 13
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dawn is Hollow on drums

268 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 7:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
7:19
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-9, snare through bars 10-33, hi-hat through bars 34-40, snare through bars 41-45 and ride through bars 46-49, and 33 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-30, 37 and 41, and 6 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Dawn is Hollow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 9, 31, 32, 33, 40, 45 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 89 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BY -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-34 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part V -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Dawn is Hollow?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dawn is Hollow hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 7:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 27 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 Dawn is Hollow?

27 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 9, 31, 32, 33, 40, 45 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED