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Revelations 13-1 (Beast) · Binding of Isaac

Revelations 13-1 (Beast) · Binding of Isaac
EXERCISE 1 OF 106
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
PART B
PART AE
PART J
PART A
CHORUS
PART BL
PART CH
BREAK
18 groovesS20ACBAECH+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 28
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 9
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Revelations 13-1 (Beast) on drums

254 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 7:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
46/100

ride through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-37, hi-hat through bars 38-49, ride through bars 50-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-80, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 3 more places -- 5.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-----------------|
Revelations 13-1 (Beast) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 24, 29, 49 and 57 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 90 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, BL -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-22 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Revelations 13-1 (Beast)?

160 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Revelations 13-1 (Beast) hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 7:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Revelations 13-1 (Beast)?

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 24, 29, 49 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED