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This Calling · All That Remains

EXERCISE 6 OF 74
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART D
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Z
PART Q
PART AH
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesLBAHQS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Calling on drums

172 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, snare through bars 27-38, hi-hat through bars 39-49, snare through bars 50-70, ride through bars 71-78 and snare through bars 79-85, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 28-29, and 7 more places -- 12.8% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
This Calling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- B, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-72 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Calling?

216 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 This Calling hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 This Calling?

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED