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The Last Amazing Grays · Sonata Arctica

EXERCISE 3 OF 62
Groove H -- Part H
50 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGHJAAA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last Amazing Grays on drums

201 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 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
201
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-32, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-32, 57-74 and 101-106, and 4 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 15, 40, 48, 90, 99 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-130 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-78 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Last Amazing Grays?

150 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 Last Amazing Grays hard to play on drums?

62 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Last Amazing Grays?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 15, 40, 48, 90, 99 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED