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Cry Of The Banshee · Brocas Helm

Cry Of The Banshee · Brocas Helm
EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Groove B -- Part B
85 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFQBS9S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cry Of The Banshee on drums

169 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-86, silence through bars 87-92, ride through bars 93-132, hi-hat through bars 133-150 and silence through bars 151-169.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-33, 36-42 and 54-60, and 5 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Cry Of The Banshee -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cry Of The Banshee?

175 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 Cry Of The Banshee hard to play on drums?

59 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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.

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