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Ace Of Combat · Router

Ace Of Combat · Router
EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove H -- Chorus
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0 / 57 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Y
BREAK
PART AA
OUTRO
11 groovesS9HDYAA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ace Of Combat on drums

139 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
72/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and ride through bars 33-41, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 42-44, and 3 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Ace Of Combat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 9, 12, 13, 18, 21 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-28 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-75 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ace Of Combat?

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 Ace Of Combat hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Ace Of Combat?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 9, 12, 13, 18, 21 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED