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The Truth of My Perception · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 14 OF 41
Groove G
100 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2, PART N
PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
7 groovesHJDAN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Truth of My Perception on drums

136 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-66, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-59, 61-64 and 113-123, and 1 more place -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
The Truth of My Perception -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 34, 38, 46, 72, 84 and 1 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Truth of My Perception?

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

Is The Truth of My Perception hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Truth of My Perception?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 34, 38, 46, 72, 84 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED