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Gandalf's Rebirth · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEKABHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gandalf's Rebirth on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, snare through bars 31-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 10 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x--x--|
Gandalf's Rebirth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 18, 38, 42, 46, 66 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, A -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-52 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-39 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-61 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gandalf's Rebirth?

150 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 Gandalf's Rebirth hard to play on drums?

55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Gandalf's Rebirth?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 18, 38, 42, 46, 66 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED