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Said the King to the River · La Dispute

EXERCISE 6 OF 93
Groove B
53 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AT
PART AQ
OUTRO
14 groovesXAFAQCAT+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Said the King to the River on drums

175 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, toms through bars 21-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-61, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54-77 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54           55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------|x-----------x---|
HH |----o---o---|----o---o-------|
SD |----x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x---|
Said the King to the River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 28, 29 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- X, AF -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-30 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Said the King to the River?

160 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 Said the King to the River 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Said the King to the River?

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 28, 29 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED