ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Celestial Sacrifice on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 100 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 102
LENGTH: 3:59
DIFFICULTY: 97/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-19, ride through bars 20-26, toms through bars 27-29, hi-hat through bars 30-53 and silence through bars 54-79, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 3 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                                                                2
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |------------------------x---------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------x-------|
RD |--------------------------------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-----------------------------------|
SD |------------------------x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---------------------------x-------|
T1 |x-x-x-x---------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------x-x-x-x-------------------------|
T2 |--------x-x-x-x-------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------x-x-x-x-----------------|
BD |----------------x-x-x-x-----------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---------------------x-x-x-x---------|

Celestial Sacrifice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 21 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 26-41 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Celestial Sacrifice?

100 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 Celestial Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Celestial Sacrifice?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 21 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED