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Open The Gates · Dark Funeral

EXERCISE 19 OF 106
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 106 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
PART I
PART S
PART X
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART Q
OUTRO
15 groovesGSAAOQ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Open The Gates on drums

211 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-41, hi-hat through bars 42-58, ride through bars 59-66, hi-hat through bars 67-82 and ride through bars 83-90, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 91-97 and 99-105, and 6 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Open The Gates -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 21-34 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Open The Gates?

200 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 Open The Gates hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 The Gates?

24 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED