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Dragonheads · Ensiferum

EXERCISE 6 OF 81
Groove K -- Outro
44 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART AR, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART I
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART P
PART U
PART A
PART AG
PART AI
PART AL
PART F
PART AR
OUTRO
BREAK
14 groovesBFALKU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dragonheads on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
86/100

ride through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-57, hi-hat through bars 58-65, ride through bars 66-71 and kick and crashes through bars 72-90, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 9 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---------------x---x---x-------------------x---|
Dragonheads -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 41, 57, 74 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-42 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-59 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dragonheads?

125 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 Dragonheads hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Dragonheads?

17 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 41, 57, 74 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED