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8th Commandment · Sonata Arctica

EXERCISE 5 OF 23
Fill at bar 8
123 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesELS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 8th Commandment on drums

155 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
92/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-124, silence through bars 125-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-138, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 19-73 and 75-106, and 5 more places -- 81.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
8th Commandment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 18, 74, 123 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 8th Commandment?

175 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 8th Commandment hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 8th Commandment?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 18, 74, 123 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED