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XVIII · Mystic Whore

EXERCISE 2 OF 41
Groove F -- Part F
27 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHLRCF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play XVIII on drums

161 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
84/100

silence through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-46, ride through bars 47-69, snare through bars 70-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-93, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 6 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
XVIII -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 46, 58, 70, 74, 78 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-47 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-71 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-97 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is XVIII?

180 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 XVIII hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 XVIII?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 46, 58, 70, 74, 78 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED