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Mountain Magick · Wolves In The Throne Room

Mountain Magick · Wolves In The Throne Room
EXERCISE 26 OF 73
Join Part F to Chorus 3 (bars 83-85)
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0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART F
PART A
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJFAGS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mountain Magick on drums

229 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
7:38
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-35, ride through bars 36-42, hi-hat through bars 43-55 and ride through bars 56-61, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 43-46 and 77-83, and 4 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--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-|
Mountain Magick -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 31, 32, 47, 48 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-85 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-102 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 100-114 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mountain Magick?

120 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 Mountain Magick hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 7:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 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 Mountain Magick?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 31, 32, 47, 48 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED