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Ride of the Valkyries · Brothers Of Metal

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove I -- Chorus 2
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PART E
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesIGEHA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ride of the Valkyries on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-59, snare through bars 60-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-77, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 25 and 44-46, and 13 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Ride of the Valkyries -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 8, 18, 26, 30, 33 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-31 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-19 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-32 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 8 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ride of the Valkyries?

145 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 Ride of the Valkyries hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ride of the Valkyries?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 8, 18, 26, 30, 33 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED