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Herald of Darkness · Old Gods Of Asgard [feat. Alan Wake & Mr. Door]

Herald of Darkness · Old Gods Of Asgard [feat. Alan Wake & Mr. Door]
EXERCISE 25 OF 89
Groove P -- Part P
336 / 524 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART P
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART P
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART S32
16 groovesGQSS32D+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Herald of Darkness on drums

524 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 13:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
524
LENGTH
13:26
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-52, snare through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-86, silence through bars 87-88 and toms through bars 89-96, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-22, 27-34 and 37-52, and 13 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15                       16
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|x-----------x--x--------|
Herald of Darkness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 14, 53, 54, 96, 106 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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, Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-35 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-55 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-108 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Herald of Darkness?

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

Is Herald of Darkness hard to play on drums?

59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

524 bars, about 13:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Herald of Darkness?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 14, 53, 54, 96, 106 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 524 BARS ANALYSED