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Grimnir · Damned

Grimnir · Damned
EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 80 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART AH
CHORUS 4
PART AH
OUTRO
6 groovesCAHQOAK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grimnir on drums

198 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-39, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 10-12 and 14-16, and 28 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 61 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH, U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-39 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-110 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Grimnir?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Grimnir hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Grimnir?

23 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED