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Apophis - Black Dragon · Belphegor

EXERCISE 13 OF 44
Fill at bar 44 and 48 (a small one)
92 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesVARXO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apophis - Black Dragon on drums

188 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-25, ride through bars 26-27, snare through bars 28-42 and ride through bars 43-51, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-82, 85-86 and 89-90, and 10 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Apophis - Black Dragon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 21 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part S2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Apophis - Black Dragon?

117 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 Apophis - Black Dragon hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Apophis - Black Dragon?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 21 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED