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A Solitary Reign · Amenra

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove A -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesAS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Solitary Reign on drums

345 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 8:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
345
LENGTH
8:54
DIFFICULTY
28/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-96, silence through bars 97-100, ride through bars 101-132, hi-hat through bars 133-180 and silence through bars 181-184, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-179, 181-215 and 217-343, and 1 more place -- 102.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 344.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A Solitary Reign?

155 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 Solitary Reign hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

345 bars, about 8:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Solitary Reign?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 344.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 345 BARS ANALYSED