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Key To The Gate · Burzum

EXERCISE 15 OF 35
Groove K -- Part K
67 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART H
PART K
PART S7
PART M
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS12MHTI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Key To The Gate on drums

121 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 138 BPM, 4:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-35, silence through bars 36-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-69, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-53 and 55-57, and 2 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--------x-----------x---|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Key To The Gate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- M -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-27 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 33-77 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-92 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Key To The Gate?

138 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Key To The Gate hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Key To The Gate?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED