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Guardian Of The Night · Accept

EXERCISE 16 OF 46
Groove S -- Part S
87 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART S, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART AG
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGCAIAGS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Guardian Of The Night on drums

146 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-124, snare through bars 125-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-146.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-23 and 34-36, and 17 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 48, 49, 53, 78, 79, 83 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G, C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-34 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-54 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-78 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 5 and Part AE -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part AE -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part AE and Part AG -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Guardian Of The Night?

160 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 Guardian Of The Night hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Guardian Of The Night?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 48, 49, 53, 78, 79, 83 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED