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Battle Scene II · The Black Mages

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDTIS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battle Scene II on drums

135 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-11, ride through bars 12-48, silence through bars 49-50, ride through bars 51-78 and kick and crashes through bars 79-86, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 15 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |----x---x---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x--x--x-----|
Battle Scene II -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 32, 40, 44, 47, 58 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, T -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-78 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Battle Scene II?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Battle Scene II hard to play on drums?

57 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Scene II?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 32, 40, 44, 47, 58 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED