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Asgore Guitar version · Toby Fox

EXERCISE 16 OF 40
Join Part D to Part H (bars 17-19)
40 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART H
PART B
PART D
PART B
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMQDBS9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Asgore Guitar version on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 2-16, toms through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-53, silence through bars 54-61, hi-hat through bars 62-72 and snare through bars 73-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26, 28-30 and 32-34, and 4 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28               29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x--x--x---------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|----------------|
SD |--x---x---xx-xx-|x--x--x-xxx-----|
T1 |----------------|-----------x----|
T2 |----------------|------------xx--|
FT |----------------|--------------xx|
BD |x---xx-x-x--xx-x|-xx-xx-x--------|
Asgore Guitar version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 13, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-19 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-41 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Asgore Guitar version?

121 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 Asgore Guitar version hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 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 Asgore Guitar version?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 13, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED