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Mysterious Kingdom · Lord Belial

Mysterious Kingdom · Lord Belial
EXERCISE 2 OF 71
Groove X -- Part X
31 / 227 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X
PART C
PART A
PART L
PART N
PART V
PART X
PART V
CHORUS
PART AF
16 groovesAAVXAAF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mysterious Kingdom on drums

227 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
84/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-35, hi-hat through bars 36-57, silence through bars 58-66 and toms through bars 67-80, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-97, 99-106 and 139-154 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    92
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----|
Mysterious Kingdom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-21 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mysterious Kingdom?

135 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Mysterious Kingdom hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Mysterious Kingdom?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED