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The Haunting · Kamelot

EXERCISE 11 OF 48
Groove I -- Part I
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PART C
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDENCH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Haunting on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, toms through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-115, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 16 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 72, 96 and 154.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-50 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Haunting?

120 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 Haunting hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Haunting?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 72, 96 and 154.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED