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Prayer Of The Refugee · Rise Against

EXERCISE 12 OF 29
Groove O -- Part O
51 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART O
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIECYO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prayer Of The Refugee on drums

77 bars, 3:57, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-11, snare through bars 12-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, ride through bars 27-31 and snare through bars 32-39, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 32-34, and 7 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|
Prayer Of The Refugee -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 26, 35, 39, 52, 64 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 25-31 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prayer Of The Refugee?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Prayer Of The Refugee hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Prayer Of The Refugee?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 26, 35, 39, 52, 64 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED