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Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife) · Kamelot

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART S2
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAYES2U+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife) on drums

195 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 3:49 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
165 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-47, snare through bars 48-51, hi-hat through bars 52-107 and kick and crashes through bars 108-110, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 52-66 and 88-90, and 5 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 47, 51, 67, 71, 75 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, Y -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-124 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-52 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-68 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife)?

165 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife) 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife)?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 47, 51, 67, 71, 75 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED