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Ride The Wings Of Pestilence (cooler drums) · From First To Last

EXERCISE 20 OF 77
Fill at bar 20 (a small one)
124 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART H
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesVTAJAHH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ride The Wings Of Pestilence (cooler drums) on drums

239 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 4:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-58 and snare through bars 59-68, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55, 57 and 61-63, and 36 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ride The Wings Of Pestilence (cooler drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 26 and 40 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 -- V -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP (a two-bar phrase), AH -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-89 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-18 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ride The Wings Of Pestilence (cooler drums)?

190 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Ride The Wings Of Pestilence (cooler drums) hard to play on drums?

58 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Ride The Wings Of Pestilence (cooler drums)?

18 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 26 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED