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Relentless Dawn · Winter Downfall

Relentless Dawn · Winter Downfall
EXERCISE 19 OF 72
Groove J -- Part J
95 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART J
PART B
PART H
PART J
PART O
PART L
PART B
PART J
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
9 groovesUBJOD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Relentless Dawn on drums

160 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-32, hi-hat through bars 33-34, ride through bars 35-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-74, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-16 and 59-65, and 1 more place -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Relentless Dawn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 42 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-110 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-28 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Relentless Dawn?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Relentless Dawn hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Relentless Dawn?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 42 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED