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The Invisible Guests · King Diamond

EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove I -- Part I
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PART S2
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART AB
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKXABPAR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Invisible Guests on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-36, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 23 and 39, and 3 more places -- 7.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xx-x--x-xx-x--x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Invisible Guests -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 74 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-51 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Invisible Guests?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Invisible Guests hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Invisible Guests?

20 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED