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Sequoia Throne · Protest The Protagonist

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove X -- Chorus
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0 / 59 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T, CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART J
PART T
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesXATGBFJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sequoia Throne on drums

107 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-31 and toms through bars 32-34, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 46, and 6 more places -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----------x-------|
Sequoia Throne -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 24 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- X, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BF -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-34 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-25 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-36 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-46 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sequoia Throne?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sequoia Throne hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 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 Sequoia Throne?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 24 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED