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Sanctuary · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Groove F
66 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sanctuary on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 2-12, silence through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-25, silence through bars 26-27, snare through bars 28-31 and toms through bars 32-33, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11 and 16-21, and 10 more places -- 63% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 33, 83, 84 and 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sanctuary?

108 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 Sanctuary hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sanctuary?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 33, 83, 84 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED