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The fragrance of fallen flowers · Whispering Death

EXERCISE 26 OF 61
Groove U
54 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
CHORUS
PART J
PART S
PART Y
PART AH
PART S
PART S10
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGAHSYJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The fragrance of fallen flowers on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
87/100

snare through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-41 and snare through bars 42-52, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 74-76, and 1 more place -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o---------------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-------x-----------x-----------x-------|
BD |----x---x-------x---x-------x-------x---x-------x---x-------x---|
The fragrance of fallen flowers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 25 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH, G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-41 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S5 and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The fragrance of fallen flowers?

125 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 fragrance of fallen flowers hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 fragrance of fallen flowers?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED