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Princess Of The Night · Saxon

EXERCISE 14 OF 42
Join Chorus to Part A (bars 32-34)
129 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART N
PART L
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDLAFN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Princess Of The Night on drums

207 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-60, toms through bars 61-62, ride through bars 63-78 and toms through bars 79-80, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29 and 33, and 29 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Princess Of The Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 62, 79, 80, 96, 110 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-81 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-97 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 81-128 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 140-156 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Princess Of The Night?

210 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 Princess Of The Night hard to play on drums?

53 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Princess Of The Night?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 62, 79, 80, 96, 110 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED