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For Horsemen · Beatallica

EXERCISE 12 OF 14
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 73-75)
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For Horsemen on drums

79 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, ride through bars 43-52, hi-hat through bars 53-68 and ride through bars 69-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 27-41 and 53-67 -- 57% 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-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
For Horsemen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 42 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is For Horsemen?

200 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 For Horsemen hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 For Horsemen?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 42 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED