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King · Immortal Disfigurement

EXERCISE 13 OF 119
Groove H -- Outro 2
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0 / 119 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART H
PART BD
PART AT
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAFEBDAAT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 34
LAND · 34
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play King on drums

182 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-19, ride through bars 20-27, toms through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and snare through bars 42-45, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 78-80 and 146-148, and 3 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
King -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

34 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 25, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 84 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 -- AF, A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-32 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-42 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is King?

130 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 King hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 23 sittings, about 28 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 King?

34 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 25, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED