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The Stains Of Time · Jamie Christopherson

The Stains Of Time · Jamie Christopherson
EXERCISE 23 OF 61
Run J1 · Part J (bars 20-31)
76 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART M
PART O
8 groovesDJMOV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Stains Of Time on drums

102 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-43, snare through bars 44-61 and ride through bars 62-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 10 more places -- 16.7% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
The Stains Of Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 13, 35 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 20-47 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Stains Of Time?

200 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 Stains Of Time hard to play on drums?

64 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 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 Stains Of Time?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 13, 35 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED