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Truths, Ironies, the Secret Lyrics · Foreground Eclipse

EXERCISE 33 OF 72
Join Chorus to Part R (bars 41-43)
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0 / 72 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART R
PART B
CHORUS
PART R
PART W
PART AA
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesJWAABAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Truths, Ironies, the Secret Lyrics on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 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
146
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-28, ride through bars 29-34 and snare through bars 35-58, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35-41 and 91-97, and 3 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- J, AA -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-18 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-60 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Truths, Ironies, the Secret Lyrics?

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 hard to play on drums?

53 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?

146 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 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?

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED