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conqueror · Pentakill

conqueror · Pentakill
EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHCABAKAJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play conqueror on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, ride through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-30, ride through bars 31-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 9, and 13 more places -- 12.6% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-xxx--x--x----x|
conqueror -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 20 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- C, H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AB -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-54 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-88 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is conqueror?

125 BPM, in 4/4, 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 conqueror hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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?

11 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 20 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED