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Black Vengeance of the Ancient Hordes · Demoncy

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove C -- Part C
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PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART J
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCFJR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Vengeance of the Ancient Hordes on drums

166 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
90/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-61, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 57-60 and 72, and 6 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Black Vengeance of the Ancient Hordes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 22, 26, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-97 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-99 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-69 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Vengeance of the Ancient Hordes?

180 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Black Vengeance of the Ancient Hordes hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Black Vengeance of the Ancient Hordes?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 22, 26, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED