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Gates Of Babylon · Rainbow

EXERCISE 16 OF 82
Groove L -- Part L
85 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART I
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Q
PART U
PART I
PART AE
PART I
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEUIQAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gates Of Babylon on drums

182 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-24, ride through bars 25-34, snare through bars 35-40, hi-hat through bars 41-55 and ride through bars 56-65, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 15, and 13 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Gates Of Babylon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 16, 21, 24 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-95 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-39 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-73 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-61 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gates Of Babylon?

120 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 Gates Of Babylon hard to play on drums?

62 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 6:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Gates Of Babylon?

20 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 16, 21, 24 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED