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your colors, your feelings · Story of Hope

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove AF -- Outro
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0 / 72 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AF, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
PART W
PART AF
PART AF
PART AI
PART AN
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBAFANNW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play your colors, your feelings on drums

137 bars at 199 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
199 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-24, hi-hat through bars 25-43, snare through bars 44-68, toms through bars 69-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-87, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72-77, 84-86 and 120-125 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 33 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 -- AF, N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part AF -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is your colors, your feelings?

199 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 your colors, your feelings hard to play on drums?

58 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 your colors, your feelings?

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED