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Exile Of The Sons Of Uisliu · Amorphis

EXERCISE 10 OF 54
Groove O -- Part O
65 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIOSWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Exile Of The Sons Of Uisliu on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-39, toms through bars 40-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-57, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-15 and 38-39, and 8 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Exile Of The Sons Of Uisliu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 16-42 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Exile Of The Sons Of Uisliu?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Exile Of The Sons Of Uisliu hard to play on drums?

59 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Exile Of The Sons Of Uisliu?

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED