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The Ballad of St. Augustine · Disciple

EXERCISE 32 OF 47
Groove S
127 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPKHS7W+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ballad of St. Augustine on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-51, hi-hat through bars 52-54, snare through bars 55-83, silence through bars 84-99 and snare through bars 100-157.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44, 46-51 and 67-73, and 5 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
The Ballad of St. Augustine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- P, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-25 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-70 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-116 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Ballad of St. Augustine?

148 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 of St. Augustine hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 of St. Augustine?

9 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED