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The Masquerade Ball · Axel Rudi Pell

EXERCISE 9 OF 36
Fill at bar 20, 37, 45 and 5 more (a small one)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBKOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Masquerade Ball on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 7:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-83, snare through bars 84-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-147.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 30 more places -- 68.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Masquerade Ball -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 82-88 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Masquerade Ball?

78 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 Masquerade Ball hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 7:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Masquerade Ball?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED