ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ludwig, the Holy Blade - Metal Cover || RichaadEB on drums

80 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 3:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 125 BPM
TIME: 6/4
BARS: 80
LENGTH: 3:46
DIFFICULTY: 63/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-21 and snare through bars 22-25, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-46, 48-49 and 52 -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44                                               45
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x---------------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|----------------x--x----------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x---------------x-x-x---|x--x-x--x--x-x-------x--x---------------x-------|

Ludwig, the Holy Blade - Metal Cover || RichaadEB -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Ludwig, the Holy Blade - Metal Cover || RichaadEB?

125 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Ludwig, the Holy Blade - Metal Cover || RichaadEB hard to play on drums?

63 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ludwig, the Holy Blade - Metal Cover || RichaadEB?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 25 more.

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