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Gate Through The Past · Holy Knights

Gate Through The Past · Holy Knights
EXERCISE 12 OF 79
Join Part B to Part E (bars 7-9)
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0 / 79 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
PART B
PART E
PART L
PART S
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
11 groovesASBLE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 18
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gate Through The Past on drums

203 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
6:15
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-47 and kick and crashes through bars 48-54, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 35-37 and 58, and 10 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Gate Through The Past -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 22, 30, 34, 38 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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, S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-40 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-38 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gate Through The Past?

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 Gate Through The Past hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

203 bars, about 6:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Gate Through The Past?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 22, 30, 34, 38 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED