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The Idiot Sun · Leviathan

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
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CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAIDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Idiot Sun on drums

293 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 8:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
8:39
DIFFICULTY
32/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, silence through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-174, ride through bars 175-177, hi-hat through bars 178-259 and ride through bars 260-293.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 24-70 and 72-118, and 2 more places -- 83.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x-----------|
The Idiot Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 177.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 164-181 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Idiot Sun?

105 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Idiot Sun hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 8:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Idiot Sun?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 177.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 293 BARS ANALYSED