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Truths, Ironies, The Secret Lyrics (2013 Ver.) · Foreground Eclipse

EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART A
PART C
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART Z
PART A
PART AF
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLAZCAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Truths, Ironies, The Secret Lyrics (2013 Ver.) on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 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
154
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, snare through bars 27-36 and ride through bars 37-42, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 43-49 and 99-105, and 3 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Truths, Ironies, The Secret Lyrics (2013 Ver.) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 34 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- L, A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-37 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-43 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-62 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Truths, Ironies, The Secret Lyrics (2013 Ver.)?

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 Truths, Ironies, The Secret Lyrics (2013 Ver.) hard to play on drums?

63 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 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 Truths, Ironies, The Secret Lyrics (2013 Ver.)?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 34 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED