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Death And The Labyrinth · At The Gates

EXERCISE 20 OF 42
Groove K -- Part K
54 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART A
PART C
PART A
CHORUS
PART S5
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFAOKH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death And The Labyrinth on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-37 and silence through bars 38-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 26 and 28, and 6 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Death And The Labyrinth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 32, 44, 46 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-21 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-37 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death And The Labyrinth?

120 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 Death And The Labyrinth hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 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.

How many fills are in Death And The Labyrinth?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 32, 44, 46 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED