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Elden Ring Main Theme - Metal · Kalloboi

EXERCISE 28 OF 28
Play the whole song with the record
94 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 111 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGKS6TB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elden Ring Main Theme - Metal on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-16, snare through bars 17-41, toms through bars 42-43, snare through bars 44-68 and silence through bars 69-85, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22 and 24-28, and 7 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Elden Ring Main Theme - Metal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 35, 42, 43, 55 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, R -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-111 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Elden Ring Main Theme - Metal?

150 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 Elden Ring Main Theme - Metal 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Elden Ring Main Theme - Metal?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 35, 42, 43, 55 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED