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Hail to the King (E standard) 5 minute version · John potato

EXERCISE 13 OF 31
2-bar fill at bar 47
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0 / 31 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesCOABS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hail to the King (E standard) 5 minute version on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-72, toms through bars 73-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 15 more places -- 45.9% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hail to the King (E standard) 5 minute version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 35, 36, 44, 47, 48 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 70-86 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hail to the King (E standard) 5 minute version?

118 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 Hail to the King (E standard) 5 minute version hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hail to the King (E standard) 5 minute version?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 35, 36, 44, 47, 48 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED