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Ritual · Gorgoroth

EXERCISE 9 OF 22
17-bar fill at bar 50
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0 / 22 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDRAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ritual on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-50, toms through bars 51-68, hi-hat through bars 69-116, toms through bars 117-124 and kick and crashes through bars 125-126.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 and 69-84 -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ritual -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 42, 50, 51 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 20-88 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ritual?

140 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 Ritual hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ritual?

4 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 42, 50, 51 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED