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Shadow of the Mithril Mountains · Dragonland

EXERCISE 20 OF 73
Groove N
114 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCAKS12TH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadow of the Mithril Mountains on drums

191 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 9:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
9:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-35, toms through bars 36-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-60, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11-15 and 31, and 10 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    42
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Shadow of the Mithril Mountains -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 10, 20, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-31 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 39-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shadow of the Mithril Mountains?

80 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 Shadow of the Mithril Mountains hard to play on drums?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 9:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Shadow of the Mithril Mountains?

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 10, 20, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED