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Libertheme · Behemoth

EXERCISE 6 OF 63
Fill at bar 12
112 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART AI
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIAIFAWP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Libertheme on drums

205 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
94/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-27 and toms through bars 28-29, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 33-39 and 41-47, and 10 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Libertheme -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 29, 52, 82 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Libertheme?

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

Is Libertheme hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Libertheme?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 29, 52, 82 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED