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The King Under the Mountain · Wind Rose

EXERCISE 10 OF 77
Fill at bar 14 (a small one)
42 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
PART S2
PART G
PART M
PART O
CHORUS
PART T
PART X
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART S14
PART O
15 groovesPOMXG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The King Under the Mountain on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
90/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-12, snare through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-40, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-44 and 99-105 -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    99
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |xxx-x-xxx-xxx-x-xxx-x-xxx-xxx-x-|
The King Under the Mountain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-37 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 11-22 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-28 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-40 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The King Under the Mountain?

95 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 King Under the Mountain hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 King Under the Mountain?

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED