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Kingdom · Devin Townsend

EXERCISE 11 OF 53
Join Part C to Part D (bars 30-32)
141 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART D
PART A
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
OUTRO
8 groovesHDPMC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kingdom on drums

212 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, snare through bars 73-118 and toms through bars 119-120, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-83, 85-87 and 89-91, and 10 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---X---X---X---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
Kingdom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 40, 48, 64, 72, 84, 88 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-83 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kingdom?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Kingdom hard to play on drums?

61 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?

212 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Kingdom?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 40, 48, 64, 72, 84, 88 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED