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Emblas Saga · Brothers Of Metal

EXERCISE 17 OF 72
Run H1 · Part H (bars 32-43)
102 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART S11
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART AG
OUTRO
17 groovesGVAGKS11+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Emblas Saga on drums

199 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-10, snare through bars 11-49, hi-hat through bars 50-61, snare through bars 62-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-73, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-31, 44-61 and 117-126, and 1 more place -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    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--x--x--x--x--|
Emblas Saga -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-190 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-35 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Emblas Saga?

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 Emblas Saga hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 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 Emblas Saga?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED