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The Great Commandment · Camouflage

The Great Commandment · Camouflage
EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 14 PASSED · 102 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Great Commandment on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-46, snare through bars 47-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 19-27 and 29-36, and 10 more places -- 84.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
The Great Commandment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 57 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 81-130 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Great Commandment?

120 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 Great Commandment hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Great Commandment?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 57 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED