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And The Hero Will Drown · Story Of The Year

EXERCISE 17 OF 61
Run J1 · Part J (bars 30-38)
102 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART B
PART H
PART J
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AD
CHORUS 4
PART T
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGBHTZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play And The Hero Will Drown on drums

159 bars at 201 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
201 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, ride through bars 35-38, snare through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-56, snare through bars 57-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-66, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22-24 and 28, and 9 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
And The Hero Will Drown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 34, 55, 56, 62, 96 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-106 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 46-63 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is And The Hero Will Drown?

201 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 And The Hero Will Drown hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 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 And The Hero Will Drown?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 34, 55, 56, 62, 96 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED