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Circle of the Tyrants · Obituary

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART M
PART D
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesJFDNM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Circle of the Tyrants on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-50, hi-hat through bars 51-57, snare through bars 58-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-77, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 26-37 and 107-114 -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Circle of the Tyrants -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 4, 21, 38, 41, 42 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-23 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-22 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-44 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Circle of the Tyrants?

135 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 Circle of the Tyrants hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

178 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Circle of the Tyrants?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 4, 21, 38, 41, 42 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED