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Together As None · Denied

EXERCISE 16 OF 48
Fill at bar 30 (a small one)
56 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART F
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDOFHA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Together As None on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 18 and 22, and 12 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----------x--x--------x-----------------|
Together As None -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 26, 28, 30, 32, 40 and 6 more.

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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 32-49 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Together As None?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Together As None hard to play on drums?

58 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Together As None?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 26, 28, 30, 32, 40 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED