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Siblings of Metal · Brothers of metal

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHJCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Siblings of Metal on drums

165 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-52, hi-hat through bars 53-84, snare through bars 85-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-119, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 22-35 and 37-39, and 14 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Siblings of Metal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 52, 92, 108, 112, 120 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 74-91 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 100-112 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 105-151 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Siblings of Metal?

186 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 Siblings of Metal hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Siblings of Metal?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 52, 92, 108, 112, 120 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED