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Towards A Twilight · Night In Gales

Towards A Twilight · Night In Gales
EXERCISE 10 OF 81
Groove B -- Part B
65 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART W
CHORUS 4
12 groovesHPJWF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Towards A Twilight on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-35 and kick and crashes through bars 36-39, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 66-72, and 2 more places -- 16% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Towards A Twilight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 25, 37 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 5-21 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Towards A Twilight?

100 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 Towards A Twilight hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Towards A Twilight?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 25, 37 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED