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Final Dawn · Broken Crown

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART Q
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDQSS4V+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Final Dawn on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-51, snare through bars 52-54, hi-hat through bars 55-87, snare through bars 88-94 and ride through bars 95-110, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 37 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Final Dawn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 53 and 16 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 88-134 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Final Dawn?

130 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 Final Dawn hard to play on drums?

51 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Final Dawn?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 53 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED