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The Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag · Blackbraid

EXERCISE 1 OF 84
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART X
PART AA
PART X
PART AA
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
16 groovesBXAAVS1+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag on drums

334 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 173 BPM, 7:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
334
LENGTH
7:02
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-54, ride through bars 55-64, hi-hat through bars 65-70, ride through bars 71-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-78, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-54, 79 and 81-87, and 10 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 64, 76, 80, 88, 96, 116 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag?

173 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

334 bars, about 7:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 18 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 Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 64, 76, 80, 88, 96, 116 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 334 BARS ANALYSED