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EXERCISE 13 OF 57
Groove AA -- Outro 2
65 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART A
PART Q
PART Z
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDIQAAS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play At The Left Hand Ov God on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-25, snare through bars 26-40, toms through bars 41-49, snare through bars 50-66 and kick and crashes through bars 67-78, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20, 23-24 and 27-28, and 9 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19                               20
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---x---x-------|--------------------------------|
RD |--------------------------------|x-----x----x---x-----x-----x----|
SD |----------------x---------------|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-------xxxxxxxx----x---x---x---|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
At The Left Hand Ov God -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 18, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  5. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 19-57 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is At The Left Hand Ov God?

135 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 At The Left Hand Ov God hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 Left Hand Ov God?

12 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 18, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30 and 41 more.

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