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EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
PART S
PART F
OUTRO
9 groovesBFMS1S+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sangreal on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-65, ride through bars 66-71, snare through bars 72-87, hi-hat through bars 88-95 and ride through bars 96-103, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 9 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25                                               26
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----|x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Sangreal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 75 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-80 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-92 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-107 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 2 and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sangreal?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sangreal hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Sangreal?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 75 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED