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Ordained Fall · Athgowla

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove E -- Part E
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0 / 40 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK 3
12 groovesNEGS1B+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ordained Fall on drums

155 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-44, ride through bars 45-46, snare through bars 47-48 and ride through bars 49-50, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 5 more places -- 18.5% 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+a4e+a
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ordained Fall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 30, 42, 95, 107, 141 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-30 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-46 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-63 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ordained Fall?

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 Ordained Fall hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Ordained Fall?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 30, 42, 95, 107, 141 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED