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Return To Serenity · Testament

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove J -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJS12HS1C+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Return To Serenity on drums

118 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 5:45 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25, silence through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-68 and silence through bars 69-70, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 38-44 and 47-49, and 4 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
Return To Serenity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 58, 59, 79 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- J, H -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-17 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-60 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-87 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Return To Serenity?

115 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Return To Serenity hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Return To Serenity?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 58, 59, 79 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED