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Watching The Skies · Forgetting The Memories

Watching The Skies · Forgetting The Memories
EXERCISE 25 OF 82
Groove Q -- Part Q
62 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Q
PART U
PART G
PART AR
PART AT
OUTRO
16 groovesAAZARUL+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watching The Skies on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-7, silence through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-32, hi-hat through bars 33-45 and snare through bars 46-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 119, 121 and 123, and 4 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    119
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Watching The Skies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 10, 16, 18, 26, 33 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- AZ, A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-17 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Watching The Skies?

103 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 Watching The Skies hard to play on drums?

62 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Watching The Skies?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 10, 16, 18, 26, 33 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED