← SONGS

Protector (AI) · Heaven Shall Burn

EXERCISE 16 OF 79
Fill at bar 57 (a small one)
132 / 227 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S4
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART M
CHORUS 6
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesEMWFS1+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Protector (AI) on drums

227 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-25, hi-hat through bars 26-34, silence through bars 35-49, hi-hat through bars 50-56 and snare through bars 57-69, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 23 and 26-32, and 13 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Protector (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 25, 33, 57, 77, 85 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- E, M -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-101 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-82 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Protector (AI)?

175 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 Protector (AI) hard to play on drums?

54 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Protector (AI)?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 25, 33, 57, 77, 85 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED