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Altar Of Sacrifice · Slayer

EXERCISE 30 OF 47
Groove S -- Part S
86 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART AA
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCSES10AA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Altar Of Sacrifice on drums

130 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, ride through bars 20-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42 and ride through bars 43-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 20-33 and 43, and 12 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Altar Of Sacrifice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 19, 34 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-53 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-100 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S and Part AA -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Altar Of Sacrifice?

225 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 Altar Of Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 Altar Of Sacrifice?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 19, 34 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED