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Practice What You Preach · Testament

EXERCISE 19 OF 47
Groove L -- Part L
187 / 231 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART H
PART L
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIGDHB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Practice What You Preach on drums

231 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-67 and snare through bars 68-69, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 36-38, and 23 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Practice What You Preach -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-103 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 51-62 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Practice What You Preach?

190 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 Practice What You Preach hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 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 Practice What You Preach?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED