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Sacrifice · Tesseract

EXERCISE 11 OF 84
Join Part A to Part F (bars 20-22)
43 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART F
PART A
PART F
PART C
PART Q
PART F
PART AE
PART AQ
PART AZ
CHORUS
BREAK
10 groovesS12BHAQF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sacrifice on drums

195 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 127 BPM, 7:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-37, toms through bars 38-39, snare through bars 40-46, hi-hat through bars 47-60 and snare through bars 61-74, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17 -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |---g-g--x------------------g-g--x---------------|
SD |----------------------------------------x-------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Sacrifice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 24, 25, 31, 32, 38 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BH -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-29 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-53 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sacrifice?

127 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 7:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Sacrifice?

19 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 24, 25, 31, 32, 38 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED