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Aqua Regia · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 8 OF 22
Run C1 · Part C (bars 5-15)
52 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHS6CBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aqua Regia on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, ride through bars 45-53 and silence through bars 54-68, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 6 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 52 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 16-53 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Aqua Regia?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Aqua Regia hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Aqua Regia?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 52 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED