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The Ballad · Millencolin

The Ballad · Millencolin
EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 20 PASSED · 73 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCADFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ballad on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-114 and snare through bars 115-118.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24 and 41-105 -- 61.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
The Ballad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 114.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-107 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 102-115 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Ballad?

100 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 The Ballad 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Ballad?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED