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Open Arms To Damnation 2017 · Born Of Osiris

EXERCISE 18 OF 35
Groove Y
55 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS
PART P
PART X
PART S5
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAPAKAQX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Open Arms To Damnation 2017 on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-20, snare through bars 21-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-56 and snare through bars 57-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 9, and 3 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                                                2
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--------x--------x--------x--------x--------x--|x--x--x--------x--x--x--x--------x--x--x--x--x--|
Open Arms To Damnation 2017 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 20 and 33.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Open Arms To Damnation 2017?

145 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 Open Arms To Damnation 2017 hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Open Arms To Damnation 2017?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 20 and 33.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED