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At The Edge of The Burning Steel Ver. 2 · MÖRKENSTERN

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesETCMI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play At The Edge of The Burning Steel Ver. 2 on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-22, hi-hat through bars 23-25, snare through bars 26-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-37, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 31-34 and 45-47, and 4 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
At The Edge of The Burning Steel Ver. 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 14, 18, 22, 35, 36 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-86 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-40 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-53 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is At The Edge of The Burning Steel Ver. 2?

125 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 At The Edge of The Burning Steel Ver. 2 hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 At The Edge of The Burning Steel Ver. 2?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 14, 18, 22, 35, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED