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The House Of The Arcane · Ale & Gabbo

EXERCISE 20 OF 35
5-bar fill at bar 48
48 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART U
PART Z
PART AF
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKAZFU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The House Of The Arcane on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
73/100

ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-15, snare through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, snare through bars 28-34 and ride through bars 35-41, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7, and 2 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----x--x--|
The House Of The Arcane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 23, 30, 31, 32, 48 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-42 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part Z -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Z and Part AF -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The House Of The Arcane?

130 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 House Of The Arcane hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 House Of The Arcane?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 23, 30, 31, 32, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED