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Disciples Of Babylon · Dragonforce

EXERCISE 8 OF 96
6-bar fill at bar 8
46 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S12
PART AT
PART AT
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGATLOS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disciples Of Babylon on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 6:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
94/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-61 and ride through bars 62-64, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 30-32, and 2 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |xxx---xxx-xxx---xxx---xxx-xxx---|
Disciples Of Babylon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 93 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Disciples Of Babylon?

98 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 Disciples Of Babylon hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Disciples Of Babylon?

28 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 93 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED