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Colossus · Borknagar

EXERCISE 3 OF 49
Groove V -- Part V
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0 / 49 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, OUTRO 2
PART J
PART V
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPVFHJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 11
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Colossus on drums

170 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 121 BPM, 4:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-48, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-88, 106-112 and 122-128, and 1 more place -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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RD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |---x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----|
Colossus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 56, 60, 61 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- P, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-50 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-69 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-85 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Colossus?

121 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Colossus hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 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 Colossus?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 56, 60, 61 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED