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Sacrifice To Satan · Bewitched

EXERCISE 22 OF 39
Join Part J to Part N (bars 37-39)
92 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART N
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
6 groovesAENJS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sacrifice To Satan on drums

107 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-34 and ride through bars 35-36, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 11 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Sacrifice To Satan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 40, 48 and 8 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-64 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sacrifice To Satan?

155 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 Sacrifice To Satan hard to play on drums?

61 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sacrifice To Satan?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 40, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED