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Astaroth · Mägo de Oz

EXERCISE 37 OF 53
Run P1 · Part P (bars 105-136)
160 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART S4
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
8 groovesHEPWA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Astaroth on drums

206 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
42/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-28, toms through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-52 and toms through bars 53-57, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21-24, and 18 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|
Astaroth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 25, 27, 29 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, W -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 9 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 105-161 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part E and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Astaroth?

138 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 Astaroth hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Astaroth?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 25, 27, 29 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED