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Open Arms To Damnation · Born Of Osiris

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART P
PART V
PART S5
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAPAOAIV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Open Arms To Damnation on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-56 and snare through bars 57-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 9, and 2 more places -- 12.9% 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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 15.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Open Arms To Damnation?

150 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 hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 15.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED