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King For A Day · Battle Beast

EXERCISE 7 OF 13
Fill at bar 42 and 84 (a small one)
110 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play King For A Day on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:22 of playing, on crash, 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 speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-23 and 25-31, and 9 more places -- 88% 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 |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
King For A Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 42, 66, 74 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is King For A Day?

107 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 King For A Day hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 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 King For A Day?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 42, 66, 74 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED