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Arrival · King Diamond

EXERCISE 3 OF 68
Groove M
79 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AC
PART AK
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
10 groovesJACOVG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Arrival on drums

210 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 8:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
8:59
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-97, ride through bars 98-106, silence through bars 107-110, hi-hat through bars 111-149, kick and crashes through bars 150-152 and hi-hat through bars 153-198, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 31 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    42
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------x-----------------------|
HH |o-----------o-----------------------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Arrival -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 13, 17, 21 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 9-22 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Arrival?

94 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 Arrival hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 8:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Arrival?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 13, 17, 21 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED