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Upside Down Kingdom · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 4 OF 68
Groove L -- Part L
44 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART S
PART S10
PART Z
PART AC
PART P
OUTRO 2
12 groovesIAPLZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Upside Down Kingdom on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-47, snare through bars 48-60, ride through bars 61-64, hi-hat through bars 65-71 and snare through bars 72-79, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 65-71, and 1 more place -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 64, 72, 76 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- I, A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-60 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-65 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-73 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Upside Down Kingdom?

152 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 Upside Down Kingdom hard to play on drums?

58 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Upside Down Kingdom?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 64, 72, 76 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED