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Holmgangan Part I & II · Acheron's Idol

Holmgangan Part I & II · Acheron's Idol
EXERCISE 7 OF 72
Groove F -- Part F
50 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART AR
BREAK
BREAK 2
22 groovesOARS19S23L+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 2
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holmgangan Part I & II on drums

173 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-27, hi-hat through bars 28-44 and toms through bars 45-46, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-35 and 75-82 -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
Holmgangan Part I & II -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 37, 38 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- O, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Holmgangan Part I & II?

90 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 Holmgangan Part I & II hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 20 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 Holmgangan Part I & II?

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 37, 38 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED