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Keepers of the Faith · Terror

EXERCISE 18 OF 37
Groove P -- Part P
67 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, PART Q
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART P
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO
9 groovesJDHTQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keepers of the Faith on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 37-39, and 6 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Keepers of the Faith -- 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 24, 41, 70, 71, 72 and 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- J, K (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-29 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-54 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part P and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part Q and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-96 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Keepers of the Faith?

132 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 Keepers of the Faith hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Keepers of the Faith?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 41, 70, 71, 72 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED