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Conqueror · Aura Noir

Conqueror · Aura Noir
EXERCISE 15 OF 80
Fill at bar 14, 50, 54 and 58 (a small one)
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0 / 80 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART C, CHORUS 3
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Q
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART X
CHORUS 4
PART AK
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAIXKAK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Conqueror on drums

157 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-12, ride through bars 13-17, silence through bars 18-20 and ride through bars 21-24, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 29-30 and 67, and 6 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Conqueror -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 14, 20 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-13 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-21 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Conqueror?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Conqueror hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Conqueror?

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 14, 20 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED