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Cry Of Achilles · Alter Bridge

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 67 PASSED · 63 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART J
CHORUS 5
PART O
CHORUS 6
PART V
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
13 groovesDJOS1V+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cry Of Achilles on drums

225 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 6:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
6:58
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-56, toms through bars 57-75, snare through bars 76-90, toms through bars 91-111 and snare through bars 112-133, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 38-40, and 12 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
Cry Of Achilles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 25, 29, 37, 41, 49, 53 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-57 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cry Of Achilles?

129 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 Cry Of Achilles hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 6:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cry Of Achilles?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 25, 29, 37, 41, 49, 53 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED