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Take Your Guard Down · Hallowed Be Thy Name

Take Your Guard Down · Hallowed Be Thy Name
EXERCISE 2 OF 44
Groove D -- Part D
104 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDCKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Your Guard Down on drums

197 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-63, toms through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-95, snare through bars 96-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-141, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-17, and 7 more places -- 52.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Take Your Guard Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 41, 64 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-57 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-109 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 112-149 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take Your Guard Down?

210 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 Your Guard Down hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Your Guard Down?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 41, 64 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED