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Gates Of Delirium · Yes

EXERCISE 31 OF 46
Fill at bar 81 (a small one)
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0 / 46 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAAHJAYAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gates Of Delirium on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
81/100

ride through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-41, ride through bars 42-45, toms through bars 46-52, ride through bars 53-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-70, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 11-12 and 15-17, and 4 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg|
Gates Of Delirium -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 41, 43, 44, 63, 65 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-49 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-64 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part V and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-80 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gates Of Delirium?

91 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Delirium hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Delirium?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 41, 43, 44, 63, 65 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED