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Sanctum of the Psychopomp · Antimortal

EXERCISE 15 OF 84
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-9)
66 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART AB
PART G
PART I
PART AH
PART AQ
12 groovesOIAHGB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sanctum of the Psychopomp on drums

155 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-31, hi-hat through bars 32-43 and snare through bars 44-87, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 37 and 39, and 5 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-|
Sanctum of the Psychopomp -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 13, 17, 25, 32, 33 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- G, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-73 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-36 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 10-29 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sanctum of the Psychopomp?

173 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 Sanctum of the Psychopomp 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Sanctum of the Psychopomp?

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 13, 17, 25, 32, 33 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED