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Battle Theme · The Black Mages

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT
BREAK
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCJXRH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battle Theme on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-33, toms through bars 34-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13, and 10 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------x-----|
Battle Theme -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 14, 22, 34, 36, 37 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-38 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-47 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Battle Theme?

122 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 Battle Theme hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Theme?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 14, 22, 34, 36, 37 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED