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Once Upon The Cross · Deicide

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove G -- Part G
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CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGPIYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Once Upon The Cross on drums

147 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
83/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-45, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 83-85, and 2 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |----o---o---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Once Upon The Cross -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Once Upon The Cross?

194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Once Upon The Cross hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Once Upon The Cross?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED