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The Mourning Star · Synestia

The Mourning Star · Synestia
EXERCISE 1 OF 77
Groove N -- Part N
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0 / 77 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
PART N
CHORUS
PART N
PART N
PART AB
PART S13
CHORUS 2
PART S16
16 groovesQES16BN+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mourning Star on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-15, toms through bars 16-21 and snare through bars 22-30, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29, 45-46 and 48, and 3 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Mourning Star -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-54 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-37 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Mourning Star?

145 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 Mourning Star hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mourning Star?

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED