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While We Serve · Orbit Culture

EXERCISE 7 OF 56
Groove Z -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART G
PART S7
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDGSS7Z+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play While We Serve on drums

308 bars at 209 BPM -- fast, and 5:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
308
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-16, silence through bars 17-29, hi-hat through bars 30-31, snare through bars 32-69 and toms through bars 70-71, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-38, 40-46 and 48-62, and 4 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
While We Serve -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 31, 39, 47, 63, 70, 71 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 15-72 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 151-160 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 153-244 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is While We Serve?

209 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 While We Serve hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

308 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 While We Serve?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 31, 39, 47, 63, 70, 71 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 308 BARS ANALYSED