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The Rising Sun (Part 2) · Beralath

EXERCISE 26 OF 34
Groove S
85 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKMLFS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rising Sun (Part 2) on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 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
103
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
89/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-36, snare through bars 37-43, silence through bars 44-46 and ride through bars 47-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-58, 61-62 and 65-66, and 7 more places -- 20.8% 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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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
RD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
SD |x-----------x-----------x--------x--x-----x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
The Rising Sun (Part 2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 18, 20, 36 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- R -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-21 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-56 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Rising Sun (Part 2)?

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 (Part 2) hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 (Part 2)?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 18, 20, 36 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED