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Bathory's Sainthood · Boysetsfire

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EXERCISE 20 OF 40
3-bar fill at bar 46
49 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK
8 groovesS11FCS1R+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bathory's Sainthood on drums

103 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 3:52 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-63, toms through bars 64-69 and silence through bars 70-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-27, 37 and 39, and 2 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17                       18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |--------o---o-----------|------------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|x-x---------------------|
HF |x-x-x-x-------x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
Bathory's Sainthood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 28, 36, 46, 47, 48 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-37 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 55-61 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bathory's Sainthood?

160 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bathory's Sainthood hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Bathory's Sainthood?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 28, 36, 46, 47, 48 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED