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Sardoniscorn · Leviathan

EXERCISE 5 OF 79
Groove AS -- Outro 2
97 / 289 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCMASRAM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sardoniscorn on drums

289 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 7:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
289
LENGTH
7:10
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 2-35, silence through bars 36-38, hi-hat through bars 39-152, ride through bars 153-154, hi-hat through bars 155-156 and ride through bars 157-158, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-34, 39-70 and 103-134 -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 2, 38, 102, 153, 154, 161 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-184 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 157-170 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sardoniscorn?

145 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 Sardoniscorn hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

289 bars, about 7:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Sardoniscorn?

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 2, 38, 102, 153, 154, 161 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 289 BARS ANALYSED