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Serpents In Paradise · Avantasia

EXERCISE 10 OF 41
Groove S -- Part S
84 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDSHJWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Serpents In Paradise on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-39, hi-hat through bars 40-70, kick and crashes through bars 71-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-121, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 30-32, and 10 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
Serpents In Paradise -- 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 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 12 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-73 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Serpents In Paradise?

100 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 Serpents In Paradise hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Serpents In Paradise?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 12 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED