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Emerald Sword · Rhapsody

EXERCISE 15 OF 38
Groove H
133 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBQCPA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Emerald Sword on drums

192 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-47, toms through bars 48-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-79, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 26-40 and 58-72, and 5 more places -- 54% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Emerald Sword -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 21, 25, 41, 42, 44, 46 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, Q -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-123 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Emerald Sword?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Emerald Sword hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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 Emerald Sword?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 21, 25, 41, 42, 44, 46 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED