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Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III · Atherakia

Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III · Atherakia
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EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 15 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesS3CGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, silence through bars 14-43 and ride through bars 44-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 44-46, and 3 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------------x-|
RD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-----x-x-x-----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 9, 43, 47, 51 and 55.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-52 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III?

140 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III hard to play on drums?

59 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 9, 43, 47, 51 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED