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EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove S -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesSMDEAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Upon desolate sands (Correct version) on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, ride through bars 27-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-74, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-40, 42-44 and 48, and 6 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |-----o-----o----o----o-----o----o----o-----o----o----o-----o----|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Upon desolate sands (Correct version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 32 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 -- S -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 20-82 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-36 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Upon desolate sands (Correct version)?

110 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 Upon desolate sands (Correct version) hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Upon desolate sands (Correct version)?

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED