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Therein · Dark Tranquillity

EXERCISE 2 OF 41
Groove G -- Part G
65 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIGAQL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Therein on drums

206 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-17, toms through bars 18-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-72, 89-112 and 181-195, and 2 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    49               50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------xxxxxxxx|--xx----xx------|
BD |xxxxxxxx------x-|x----xxx---xxxxx|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---xxxx|
Therein -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 16, 202, 203 and 204.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-28 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-40 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-116 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Therein?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Therein hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Therein?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 16, 202, 203 and 204.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED