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Immortal · Lorna Shore

EXERCISE 2 OF 96
Groove AA -- Part AA
18 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W, PART AA
PART A
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART S18
PART AA
14 groovesLAWAAS18+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Immortal on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
84/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-13, toms through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24 and ride through bars 25-39, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-30, 45-46 and 49-50, and 2 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Immortal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16 and 68 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Immortal?

130 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Immortal hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 Immortal?

24 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED