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Winter Solstice · Ostiary

Winter Solstice · Ostiary
EXERCISE 30 OF 69
Groove Y -- Part Y
189 / 267 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
CHORUS
PART I
BREAK 2
PART S6
PART R
PART Y
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AP
OUTRO
15 groovesAIATRS6+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Winter Solstice on drums

267 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 7:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, ride through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-50, snare through bars 51-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-58, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 21 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    167
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
Winter Solstice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 112, 119, 120 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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, AT -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-113 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 112-146 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Winter Solstice?

151 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 Winter Solstice hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

267 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Winter Solstice?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 112, 119, 120 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED