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Sanctus Dominus · Powerwolf

EXERCISE 18 OF 47
Groove N -- Part N
86 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART N
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART X
OUTRO
9 groovesFITOA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sanctus Dominus on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-30, toms through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 33-37, and 11 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Sanctus Dominus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 14, 80, 84, 88, 92 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- F, I -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-35 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 52-67 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 58-85 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-106 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sanctus Dominus?

140 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 Sanctus Dominus hard to play on drums?

45 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sanctus Dominus?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 14, 80, 84, 88, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED