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I Slay Dragons in Arizona · Tomorrow Is The Day

I Slay Dragons in Arizona · Tomorrow Is The Day
EXERCISE 4 OF 64
Groove Y -- Part Y
14 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO 2
11 groovesNBAGADY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Slay Dragons in Arizona on drums

122 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-18, silence through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-35, snare through bars 36-64, toms through bars 65-67 and snare through bars 68-91, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 10 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-------------------x-x-x-x-|
I Slay Dragons in Arizona -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 25, 33, 41 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-110 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-34 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-54 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Slay Dragons in Arizona?

155 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 I Slay Dragons in Arizona hard to play on drums?

61 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Slay Dragons in Arizona?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 25, 33, 41 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED