ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grimorio Hyboriano I on drums

104 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 5:46 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 150 BPM
TIME: 8/4
BARS: 104
LENGTH: 5:46
DIFFICULTY: 73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-102 and silence through bars 103-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 1 more place -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37                               38
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o-----------|----o---o---o---o---o-----------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
T2 |--------------------------------|------------------------x-x-x---|
FT |------------------------x-x-x---|--------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Grimorio Hyboriano I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 38, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 5-20 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part H and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 9 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Grimorio Hyboriano I?

150 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Grimorio Hyboriano I hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Grimorio Hyboriano I?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 38, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED