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Sweet Sacrifice · Evanescence

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove F -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFLDIE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Sacrifice on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-37, snare through bars 38-44, toms through bars 45-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 48-54 and 56-63, and 1 more place -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Sweet Sacrifice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 29, 37, 55 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-39 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-56 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sweet Sacrifice?

98 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 Sweet Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sweet Sacrifice?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 29, 37, 55 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED