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For The Dark Gods · Montfaucon

For The Dark Gods · Montfaucon
EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove A -- Chorus 3
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART H
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART H
PART S12
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAHS16BK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For The Dark Gods on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-21, snare through bars 22-44, toms through bars 45-46, snare through bars 47-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-71, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 17 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------x---x-|
For The Dark Gods -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 21, 25, 33, 41, 42, 43 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-50 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is For The Dark Gods?

135 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 For The Dark Gods hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 For The Dark Gods?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 21, 25, 33, 41, 42, 43 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED