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Prayer · Gorgoroth

EXERCISE 8 OF 38
Groove A
80 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prayer on drums

135 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 3:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-33 and ride through bars 34-35, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 36-38 and 40-41, and 15 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-----x-----|
BD |x-xxxxx-xxxx|
Prayer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 3, 10, 11, 18, 19, 34 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prayer?

145 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Prayer hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 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 Prayer?

11 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 3, 10, 11, 18, 19, 34 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED