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Dragon's Flight · Dmitriy Beznosow

EXERCISE 9 OF 47
Groove B -- Part B
36 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART O
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART O
PART V
OUTRO
BREAK
13 groovesS13S4VOI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dragon's Flight on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-14, silence through bars 15-29, snare through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-45 and ride through bars 46-54, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-88 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-xx-x--x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |-x-----x--x----x|
FT |--xx----xx-x--x-|
BD |x----xx------x--|
Dragon's Flight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 33, 37, 41 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 2-31 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-48 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-64 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dragon's Flight?

101 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's Flight hard to play on drums?

53 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dragon's Flight?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 33, 37, 41 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED