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Battle of Tredem · Netherwalker

EXERCISE 12 OF 84
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 24-26)
64 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesES21OBG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battle of Tredem on drums

167 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, toms through bars 43-44 and snare through bars 45-61, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-24, 32-33 and 54-57, and 4 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 25, 29, 62, 63, 65, 66 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-50 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-57 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Battle of Tredem?

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

Is Battle of Tredem hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 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 Battle of Tredem?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 25, 29, 62, 63, 65, 66 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED