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Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead) · Guilty Gear XX

EXERCISE 5 OF 31
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
28 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHLES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead) on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-29, ride through bars 30-39 and toms through bars 40-41, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 5 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |--o-o-o---o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-89 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead)?

120 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 Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

89 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 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 Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead)?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED