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Sacred Place · Orthodox

EXERCISE 34 OF 49
Fill at bar 66 (a small one)
78 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART Y
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
PART U
PART Y
PART U
OUTRO
7 groovesCUYMB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sacred Place on drums

104 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 3-14, hi-hat through bars 15-21, toms through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-32, snare through bars 33-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-5, 9-10 and 16-18, and 8 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4                5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x---|x-x-x-----x---x-|
Sacred Place -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 22, 23, 31, 32, 33 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part M and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-75 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sacred Place?

156 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Sacred Place 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Sacred Place?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 22, 23, 31, 32, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED