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Seeking Vengeance · Unleash the Archers

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove R
0 / 276 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART AB
PART C
PART AG
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesLCES22I+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seeking Vengeance on drums

276 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 5:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
276
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-70, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74, 76 and 78, and 36 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |x---------------|
BD |----x-x-x---x---|
Seeking Vengeance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 42 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- R, L, I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-41 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-49 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seeking Vengeance?

210 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 Seeking Vengeance hard to play on drums?

47 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

276 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Seeking Vengeance?

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 42 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 276 BARS ANALYSED