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Sacrificial · Death

EXERCISE 4 OF 46
Groove B -- Part B
70 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBGSE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sacrificial on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-60 and kick and crashes through bars 61-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-43 and 73-79, and 7 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sacrificial -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 18, 20, 48, 52, 56 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J, G -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 12-21 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-80 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-93 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sacrificial?

110 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 Sacrificial hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Sacrificial?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 18, 20, 48, 52, 56 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED