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Gothic · Paradise Lost

EXERCISE 12 OF 37
Run A1 · Chorus (bars 1-32)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAKOIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gothic on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-24, ride through bars 25-31, toms through bars 32-40, ride through bars 41-103 and toms through bars 104-112, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 10, and 21 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----------|
Gothic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 31-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-125 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gothic?

146 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 Gothic 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Gothic?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED