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Twilight · Bôa

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHCGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Twilight on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-38, toms through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-62, toms through bars 63-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 33 and 35, and 10 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-------x---|
HH |--o---o-o-o---o-|
SD |----x--g-g--x--g|
BD |x-x-----x-xx----|
Twilight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 34, 36, 38, 40, 58 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-74 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-66 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Twilight?

94 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 Twilight hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Twilight?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 34, 36, 38, 40, 58 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED