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...the VII Mythos · Decaying Skies

...the VII Mythos · Decaying Skies
EXERCISE 9 OF 42
Groove A -- Part A
53 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
BREAK
PART F
PART H
BREAK 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS10S7HFP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ...the VII Mythos on drums

173 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, silence through bars 42-45 and ride through bars 46-61, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 54-56, and 2 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
...the VII Mythos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 33, 49, 53 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-17 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-62 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ...the VII Mythos?

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 VII Mythos hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 VII Mythos?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 33, 49, 53 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED