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EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove Q -- Part Q
0 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AB
PART AF
PART AJ
PART AN
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAQGANAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ten of swords on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-18, toms through bars 19-43, kick and crashes through bars 44-47 and snare through bars 48-58, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 35-37 and 39-41, and 3 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
T2 |----------------x-----------------------x-------|
FT |--------------------x-----------------------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
ten of swords -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 20, 22, 24 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ten of swords?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 ten of swords hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 ten of swords?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 20, 22, 24 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED