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Lord of the Rings · Galactic Empire

EXERCISE 1 OF 87
Groove R -- Chorus
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0 / 87 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
PART S2
PART K
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AG
PART AP
CHORUS 2
PART AV
PART AW
PART BF
18 groovesRAAGAWAP+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 8
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lord of the Rings on drums

247 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
71/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-25, silence through bars 26-40, ride through bars 41-52, snare through bars 53-56 and ride through bars 57-64, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-59, 61-62 and 145-151, and 1 more place -- 7.9% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Lord of the Rings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 40, 52, 60, 63, 65 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK, AA -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-73 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-41 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-76 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part AA and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-102 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lord of the Rings?

170 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 Lord of the Rings hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Lord of the Rings?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 40, 52, 60, 63, 65 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED