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Like Gods Of The Sun · My Dying Bride

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART Y
PART AC
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART O
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEYACOK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like Gods Of The Sun on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-26, ride through bars 27-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60 and ride through bars 61-74, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 15, and 23 more places -- 16.9% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------x-------|
BD |--------x---x-------x-------x---|
Like Gods Of The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 28, 30 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC, Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Like Gods Of The Sun?

90 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 Like Gods Of The Sun hard to play on drums?

62 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 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 Like Gods Of The Sun?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 28, 30 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED