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Kingdom Of Tyrants · Cattle Decapitation

EXERCISE 5 OF 117
Groove AP -- Part AP
70 / 254 BARS COVERED
0 / 117 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AP, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART Z
PART AI
PART AP
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
12 groovesEAPZAIT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 32
LAND · 32
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kingdom Of Tyrants on drums

254 bars at 265 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
265 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
93/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-39, snare through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-43 and snare through bars 44-58, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 18-20 and 22, and 14 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

32 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 27, 34, 35 and 68 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 -- E, Z -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-44 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-40 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kingdom Of Tyrants?

265 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 Of Tyrants hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Kingdom Of Tyrants?

32 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 27, 34, 35 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED