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The Decisive Battle · The Black Mages

EXERCISE 19 OF 45
Groove L
133 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART J
PART H
PART J
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHJS1S11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Decisive Battle on drums

173 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-36, ride through bars 37-50 and snare through bars 51-52, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 9 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Decisive Battle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36 and 26 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-45 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 51-67 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 103-123 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 119-161 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Decisive Battle?

180 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 The Decisive Battle hard to play on drums?

61 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 The Decisive Battle?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED