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The Defier · Moondial

The Defier · Moondial
EXERCISE 11 OF 64
Run S41 · Part S4 (bars 11-13)
66 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S4
PART S4
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART K
18 groovesNKJSL+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Defier on drums

173 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, 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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-32, silence through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-65 and snare through bars 66-83, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-48, 125-131 and 133-148 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-xxxxxxx-xxxxxx|
The Defier -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 30, 39 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-19 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 15-33 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-52 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Defier?

140 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Defier 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Defier?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 30, 39 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED