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Cowards Throne · Thy Art Is Murder

EXERCISE 21 OF 93
Fill at bar 32 (a small one)
82 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AH
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFANAWAB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cowards Throne on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-34, hi-hat through bars 35-47, ride through bars 48-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-92, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 21-23 and 54-55, and 6 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Cowards Throne -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 20, 24, 32 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-110 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-37 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cowards Throne?

144 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 Cowards Throne hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Cowards Throne?

19 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 20, 24, 32 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED