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Heroes Of Sand · Angra

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EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove H -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 57 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHBLDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heroes Of Sand on drums

102 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 3:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-48, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-31, 33-34 and 43-48, and 4 more places -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21                       22
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x-o-|x---x---x---x---x---o---|
SD |------------x-----x-----|------------x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x---x-------------|x-x---x---x-------------|
HF |------------------------|x-----------------------|
Heroes Of Sand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 14, 20, 35, 36, 49 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heroes Of Sand?

85 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Heroes Of Sand hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Heroes Of Sand?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 14, 20, 35, 36, 49 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED