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PROPHECY · LOKEN

PROPHECY · LOKEN
EXERCISE 35 OF 51
Groove AD (a two-bar phrase)
106 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesUS24CGZ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PROPHECY on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 7:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
7:18
DIFFICULTY
21/100

toms through bars 1-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-32, snare through bars 33-36, toms through bars 37-47, ride through bars 48-51 and toms through bars 52-53, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-51, 54-57 and 128-136, and 2 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x-----------|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
PROPHECY -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 58, 59, 78 and 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- U, Z, AG -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-20 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-66 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-80 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is PROPHECY?

110 BPM, in 4/4, 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 PROPHECY hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 7:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 PROPHECY?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 58, 59, 78 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED