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The Kiss Of Judas · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 4 OF 54
Groove B
113 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCAAAMO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Kiss Of Judas on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-38, ride through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-78, ride through bars 79-80, hi-hat through bars 81-101 and silence through bars 102-108, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 45-51 and 53-59, and 5 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----xx--xx----|
The Kiss Of Judas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 43, 44, 52, 60, 80 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-101 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 139-157 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Kiss Of Judas?

127 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 Kiss Of Judas hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 Kiss Of Judas?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 43, 44, 52, 60, 80 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED