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Marks Of The Evil One · Ghost

EXERCISE 18 OF 18
Play the whole song with the record
132 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 132 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Marks Of The Evil One on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-41 and ride through bars 42-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 22-24, and 22 more places -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Marks Of The Evil One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 21, 41, 73 and 93.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-22 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-97 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Marks Of The Evil One?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Marks Of The Evil One hard to play on drums?

59 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Marks Of The Evil One?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 21, 41, 73 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED