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We Bow In Its Aura · Veil Of Maya

EXERCISE 12 OF 77
Groove C (a two-bar phrase)
51 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AG
PART R
PART AU
PART BD
PART BH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBBHBDACAG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Bow In Its Aura on drums

157 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, ride through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-25, snare through bars 26-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-33, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 122, 126-129 and 142, and 3 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    126
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
We Bow In Its Aura -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 68 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- BH -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-122 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-95 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Bow In Its Aura?

215 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 We Bow In Its Aura hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 We Bow In Its Aura?

17 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED