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My Sacrifice · Creed

EXERCISE 31 OF 32
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 73-75)
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0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART L
PART S7
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBELS7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Sacrifice on drums

83 bars, 4:29, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38, ride through bars 39-46 and snare through bars 47-57, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-17 and 27-29, and 1 more place -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-50 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-74 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is My Sacrifice?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is My Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 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 My Sacrifice?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED