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Sign Of The Cross · Avantasia

EXERCISE 16 OF 36
Groove J -- Part J
105 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEJLQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sign Of The Cross on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-89, toms through bars 90-92, hi-hat through bars 93-125, silence through bars 126-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-158.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-28, and 9 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------x-----|
Sign Of The Cross -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 36, 46 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-125 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sign Of The Cross?

130 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 Sign Of The Cross hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Sign Of The Cross?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 36, 46 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED