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Dance of the Mortal Lust · Windir

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove D -- Chorus 5
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
CHORUS 9
CHORUS 10
CHORUS 11
CHORUS 12
PART S37
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDCERI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dance of the Mortal Lust on drums

206 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-65, snare through bars 66-69, hi-hat through bars 70-73, snare through bars 74-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-94, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-20 and 33-36, and 9 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dance of the Mortal Lust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 56, 57, 65, 73, 81, 94 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-9 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-24 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-62 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-74 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dance of the Mortal Lust?

168 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 Dance of the Mortal Lust hard to play on drums?

75 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?

206 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dance of the Mortal Lust?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 56, 57, 65, 73, 81, 94 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED