ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Conquer All on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 95 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 80
LENGTH: 3:17
DIFFICULTY: 100/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-35, ride through bars 36-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19 and 40-46 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13                                                               14
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o-----------|
SD |----------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------x---x---|
FT |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------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-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 12, 20, 21 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Bars 12-60 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 25-40 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 36-67 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Conquer All?

95 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 Conquer All hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Conquer All?

10 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 12, 20, 21 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED