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Second Son Of R. · Oathbreaker

Second Son Of R. · Oathbreaker
EXERCISE 11 OF 34
Fill at bar 38
94 / 261 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART S3
PART P
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesS6BKPS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Second Son Of R. on drums

261 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
261
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45 and toms through bars 46-47, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 18-28 and 84-94, and 1 more place -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Second Son Of R. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 39-68 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Second Son Of R.?

185 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 Second Son Of R. hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

261 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Second Son Of R.?

9 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 261 BARS ANALYSED