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UHD · Sylosis 'After Lifeless Years'

UHD · Sylosis 'After Lifeless Years'
EXERCISE 14 OF 48
Fill at bar 10
34 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLIFQO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play UHD on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
82/100

toms through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-30, snare through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-42, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 43, and 4 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|
UHD -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 22, 30 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-11 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-23 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is UHD?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 UHD hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 UHD?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 22, 30 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED