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Die on the Cross of the Martyr · Unprocessed

EXERCISE 20 OF 43
3-bar fill at bar 44
55 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART S5
PART K
CHORUS
PART S9
BREAK 3
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAKS15AJS10+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die on the Cross of the Martyr on drums

178 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, ride through bars 8-12, snare through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-30 and snare through bars 31-36, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-36 and 39-41, and 3 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Die on the Cross of the Martyr -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 34, 37, 38, 42, 44, 45 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- K -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-43 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 52-87 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB and Part S12 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Die on the Cross of the Martyr?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Die on the Cross of the Martyr hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Die on the Cross of the Martyr?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 34, 37, 38, 42, 44, 45 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED