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Your Troubles Will Cease And Fortune Will Smile Upon You · After The Burial

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 41 PASSED · 51 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O, CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDCOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Troubles Will Cease And Fortune Will Smile Upon You on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-59, hi-hat through bars 60-66, snare through bars 67-82 and toms through bars 83-94, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 17 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x-x---x---x-x---x---x-x-|
Your Troubles Will Cease And Fortune Will Smile Upon You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 74, 83, 84 and 10 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Your Troubles Will Cease And Fortune Will Smile Upon You?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Your Troubles Will Cease And Fortune Will Smile Upon You hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 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 Your Troubles Will Cease And Fortune Will Smile Upon You?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 74, 83, 84 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED