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Desert Plains · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 8 OF 27
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 14-16)
126 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEIBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desert Plains on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-141.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 29 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--x--x--x--x-|
Desert Plains -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 41, 65, 73, 76, 88 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 76-90 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-131 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Desert Plains?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Desert Plains hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Desert Plains?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 41, 65, 73, 76, 88 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED