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Dragon Attack · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove B -- Verse
0 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 81 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
VERSE
CHORUS
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesBCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dragon Attack on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 2-62, snare through bars 63-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-61 and 76-96 -- 85.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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HH |xxxxoxxxxxxxoxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x----x--x-------|
Dragon Attack -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dragon Attack?

88 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 Dragon Attack hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED