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Incense & Iron · Powerwolf

EXERCISE 13 OF 34
Groove K -- Part K
87 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHJCKO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Incense & Iron on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-34, ride through bars 35-40, snare through bars 41-50, hi-hat through bars 51-66 and ride through bars 67-70, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-26, and 14 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    43
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------x-------x-------|
Incense & Iron -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 70, 78, 100, 104 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-50 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-88 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Incense & Iron?

126 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 Incense & Iron hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 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 Incense & Iron?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 70, 78, 100, 104 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED