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The Hangman Of Prague · Marduk

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove B -- Part B
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART B
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEFBS1C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Hangman Of Prague on drums

178 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-26, ride through bars 27-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-42, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 21-23, and 25 more places -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-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 Hangman Of Prague -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 92, 100, 108, 166 and 174.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-75 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 121-178 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Hangman Of Prague?

230 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 Hangman Of Prague hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Hangman Of Prague?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 92, 100, 108, 166 and 174.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED