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Traces · Vildhjarta

EXERCISE 17 OF 63
Groove Z -- Part Z (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
PART Z
CHORUS
PART BK
PART BM
PART Z
PART S11
PART CA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesS4ZACGS11+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Traces on drums

212 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-49, silence through bars 50-67 and snare through bars 68-72, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 157, 160 and 162, and 7 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    157
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-x---|
Traces -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- CA, BK -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CB -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part U -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Traces?

140 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 Traces hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 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 Traces?

12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED