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VS EGO: · Nemophila

EXERCISE 3 OF 65
Groove AE -- Outro
22 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AE, OUTRO
PART A
PART G
PART S6
CHORUS 2
PART AE
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCGAEAAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play VS EGO: on drums

101 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, silence through bars 41-42, snare through bars 43-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-62, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 13-15 and 100 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 10-21 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-51 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-67 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-74 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is VS EGO:?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is VS EGO: hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 VS EGO:?

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED