ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Eldritch on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 132 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 95
LENGTH: 2:58
DIFFICULTY: 75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-15, snare through bars 16-25, hi-hat through bars 26-34 and toms through bars 35-37, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46, 48 and 87-90 -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    87                               88
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x-----x-----x-----x-------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|--------------------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|------------------------xxxx----|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-x-----x-x-|x---x-x-----x-----x---------x---|

The Eldritch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AJ, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 12 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
Through Part U -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
Through Part U and Part AD -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part U and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
and 9 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is The Eldritch?

132 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 Eldritch hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Eldritch?

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED