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Hall Of The Mountain King · Apocalyptica

EXERCISE 35 OF 41
2-bar fill at bar 125
121 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART L
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
12 groovesKLPMD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hall Of The Mountain King on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 6:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, silence through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-62 and ride through bars 63-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-44, 83-86 and 91-98, and 1 more place -- 29.4% 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
CC |------------x---|
HH |x---------------|
SD |x-------x-------|
T2 |------x---------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Hall Of The Mountain King -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 61, 87, 88, 89, 90, 112 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- K, L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-12 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-48 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-86 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 83-124 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 120-131 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hall Of The Mountain King?

80 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 Hall Of The Mountain King hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 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 Hall Of The Mountain King?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 61, 87, 88, 89, 90, 112 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED