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Death To The Holy · Zeal & Ardor

Death To The Holy · Zeal & Ardor
EXERCISE 2 OF 37
Groove C -- Part C
14 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART C
PART E
PART B
PART C
PART E
PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLBICA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death To The Holy on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-33, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8 and 18-24 -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-x-|
FT |x-----x---x-x---x-----x---x-x---|
BD |x-----x---x-x---x-----x---x-x---|
Death To The Holy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 29, 36, 37, 39, 57 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 2-14 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-34 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death To The Holy?

89 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 To The Holy hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 To The Holy?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 29, 36, 37, 39, 57 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED