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Spear Of Justice · Undertale

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART O
PART S
PART O
PART S
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDOSACAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spear Of Justice on drums

84 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 138 BPM, 1:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 44-46, and 1 more place -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28           29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-----o-----|o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----|---x--x--xxx|
BD |x--x-x--x-x-|x--x-x--x---|
HF |--xxxx--x-x-|--x-xx--x---|
Spear Of Justice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-64 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spear Of Justice?

138 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Spear Of Justice hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Spear Of Justice?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED