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Where Winters Forever Cry · Summoning

EXERCISE 30 OF 45
Groove Q -- Part Q
101 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART J
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFQJNA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Winters Forever Cry on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-15, and 15 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Where Winters Forever Cry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 16 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-20 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-36 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 37-52 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Where Winters Forever Cry?

140 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 Where Winters Forever Cry hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Where Winters Forever Cry?

12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 16 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED