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Lord of the Void · Archgoat

Lord of the Void · Archgoat
EXERCISE 5 OF 49
Groove R -- Part R
59 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 43 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART P
PART R
PART P
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAPRMGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lord of the Void on drums

186 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
90/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-49, hi-hat through bars 50-81 and snare through bars 82-97, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 25-31, and 4 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lord of the Void?

155 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 Void hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 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 Void?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED