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The Raven AI · Unlucky morpheus

EXERCISE 1 OF 107
Groove G -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
PART AQ
CHORUS 8
CHORUS 9
CHORUS 10
CHORUS 11
OUTRO
11 groovesGSZAQI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 32
LAND · 32
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Raven AI on drums

218 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-32 and kick and crashes through bars 33-40, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 49-51 and 53-55, and 14 more places -- 23.7% 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-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x--|
The Raven AI -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

32 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 60 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z, AQ -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 7 and Part AQ -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-26 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Raven AI?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Raven AI hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Raven AI?

32 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED