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Judas Rising · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 20 OF 32
Fill at bar 75 (a small one)
101 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Judas Rising on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57, ride through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-24 and 34-40, and 13 more places -- 62.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Judas Rising -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 41, 49, 57 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-74 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Judas Rising?

135 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 Judas Rising hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Judas Rising?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 41, 49, 57 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED