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The Curse Of Feanor · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 30 OF 89
Join Part M to Part Q (bars 39-41)
150 / 219 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART Q
CHORUS
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART Q
9 groovesIQAKMAS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Curse Of Feanor on drums

219 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 5:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-28, snare through bars 29-44 and ride through bars 45-68, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 26 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- I -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Curse Of Feanor?

153 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 Curse Of Feanor hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Curse Of Feanor?

25 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED