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A Church Made of Human Bones · Where Eagles Dare

A Church Made of Human Bones · Where Eagles Dare
EXERCISE 25 OF 103
4-bar fill at bar 23
87 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 103 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART Q
PART A
PART P
PART AH
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAOAPBAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Church Made of Human Bones on drums

188 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-27, silence through bars 28-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-33, snare through bars 34-42, hi-hat through bars 43-56 and toms through bars 57-58, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 43-45, and 3 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
A Church Made of Human Bones -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 7, 9, 15, 16, 20 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH, AO -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-127 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part S3 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Church Made of Human Bones?

190 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 A Church Made of Human Bones hard to play on drums?

64 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 A Church Made of Human Bones?

26 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 7, 9, 15, 16, 20 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED