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Sacrifice · Silverstein

EXERCISE 11 OF 42
Fill at bar 4 (a small one)
56 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFLDABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sacrifice on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x---x--xx--|
Sacrifice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 23 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-20 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 17-51 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-75 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sacrifice?

125 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 Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

63 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 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Sacrifice?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 23 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED