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EXERCISE 1 OF 93
Groove Q -- Chorus
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PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AH
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART AW
CHORUS 4
PART BE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesQAHBEVC+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 26
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 12
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Fall Of Troy "I Just Got This Symphony Goin'" on drums

192 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-12, snare through bars 13-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38-39 and 67, and 12 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
The Fall Of Troy "I Just Got This Symphony Goin'" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 12, 65, 101, 139, 141 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- Q, V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-25 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Fall Of Troy "I Just Got This Symphony Goin'"?

150 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 Fall Of Troy "I Just Got This Symphony Goin'" hard to play on drums?

61 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fall Of Troy "I Just Got This Symphony Goin'"?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 12, 65, 101, 139, 141 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED