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The Exonerated ai · Dimmu Borgir

EXERCISE 15 OF 67
Fill at bar 24 and 179 (a small one)
107 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AH
PART S7
PART E
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAEWAHAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Exonerated ai on drums

191 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, toms through bars 31-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-64, toms through bars 65-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-108, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 5 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
The Exonerated ai -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 31, 33, 41 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Exonerated ai?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Exonerated ai hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 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 Exonerated ai?

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 31, 33, 41 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED