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A Desert Throne · Septicflesh

EXERCISE 4 OF 64
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 64 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesERBMA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Desert Throne on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 6:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-28, toms through bars 29-38, snare through bars 39-47, toms through bars 48-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-60, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|
A Desert Throne -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 29 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-81 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Desert Throne?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 A Desert Throne hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 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 A Desert Throne?

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 29 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED