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Anthem of Valour · Imperial Age

EXERCISE 3 OF 63
Groove F -- Part F
90 / 223 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
7 groovesMFBAHI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anthem of Valour on drums

223 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 9:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
9:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-42, hi-hat through bars 43-56, snare through bars 57-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-81, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-65, 84-99 and 135-153, and 1 more place -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Anthem of Valour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 25, 28, 32, 36, 40, 41 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-122 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part I -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 129-196 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anthem of Valour?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Anthem of Valour hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 9:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Anthem of Valour?

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 25, 28, 32, 36, 40, 41 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED