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St. George and the Dragon · Toto

EXERCISE 8 OF 54
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
61 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART J
PART AD
7 groovesBJADZU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play St. George and the Dragon on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-35, hi-hat through bars 36-44 and snare through bars 45-55, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-19, 23-28 and 45-47, and 2 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
St. George and the Dragon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 34, 38, 39, 42, 58 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 34-61 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-100 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is St. George and the Dragon?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 St. George and the Dragon 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 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 St. George and the Dragon?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 34, 38, 39, 42, 58 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED