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The Rising Sun · Beralath

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
9 groovesEHRJM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rising Sun on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
86/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64 and ride through bars 65-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27 and 41-47 -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------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-|
The Rising Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 12, 28, 32, 40, 48 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-29 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-40 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-44 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-89 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Rising Sun?

120 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 Rising Sun hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Rising Sun?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 12, 28, 32, 40, 48 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED