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Journey Through The Valley (to The Kingdom Of Light) · Anco

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove D -- Part D
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0 / 31 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
BREAK
PART B
PART S5
PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
OUTRO
BREAK 3
10 groovesKDHAS2+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Journey Through The Valley (to The Kingdom Of Light) on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, silence through bars 8-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-21, silence through bars 22-30, snare through bars 31-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-42, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31-33, and 2 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Journey Through The Valley (to The Kingdom Of Light) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 30, 42, 46, 58, 62 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-43 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-51 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Journey Through The Valley (to The Kingdom Of Light)?

110 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 Journey Through The Valley (to The Kingdom Of Light) hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 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 Journey Through The Valley (to The Kingdom Of Light)?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 30, 42, 46, 58, 62 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED