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The Husk · Rings Of Saturn

EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove AB -- Part AB
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CHORUS
PART P
PART AB
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART AB
PART AE
PART BK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAAEPAPAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Husk on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
94/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-50, ride through bars 51-66 and snare through bars 67-78, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 93, and 3 more places -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-----------x-x-|
BD |x-x---x---x---x---x-x---x---x-x-|
The Husk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 96 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 90 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AN (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Husk?

135 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 Husk hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 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 Husk?

23 fills to learn, played 96 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 90 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED