ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elizabeth Bathory on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 152
LENGTH: 5:25
DIFFICULTY: 55/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-54, silence through bars 55-64, ride through bars 65-80, hi-hat through bars 81-99 and ride through bars 100-115, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 21-24 and 33-37, and 4 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13                                                           14
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------|------------------------x-----------------------x-----------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----------o-----o-----o-----------o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------|------------x-----x-x-x-x-----x-----x-----x-x-x-x-----x-----|

Elizabeth Bathory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 26, 30, 32, 38, 40 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
Bars 38-64 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through Part N -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
Bars 63-91 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part F and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Bars 100-143 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Elizabeth Bathory?

120 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 Elizabeth Bathory hard to play on drums?

55 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 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 Elizabeth Bathory?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 26, 30, 32, 38, 40 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED