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Gethsemane · Nightwish

EXERCISE 7 OF 51
Groove C
59 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART S9
OUTRO 2
9 groovesODAGLB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gethsemane on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-28 and ride through bars 29-35, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 57-62 and 73, and 13 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx---|
Gethsemane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 11, 27, 28, 41, 47 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gethsemane?

126 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 Gethsemane hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Gethsemane?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 11, 27, 28, 41, 47 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED