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Take This Oath · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 4 OF 63
Groove K -- Part K
16 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART H
PART K
PART D
PART R
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesZKAIED+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take This Oath on drums

189 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-26 and kick and crashes through bars 27-28, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 173-187 -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    173
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Take This Oath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 70, 84 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AI -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-90 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-29 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take This Oath?

184 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 Take This Oath hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Take This Oath?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 70, 84 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED