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The Messenger · Bathory

EXERCISE 19 OF 38
Run E3 · Chorus 3 (bars 94-100)
176 / 262 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART G
PART C
PART G
PART S21
OUTRO
10 groovesECGKS21+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Messenger on drums

262 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 9:01 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
262
LENGTH
9:01
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-21, silence through bars 22-27, snare through bars 28-52, ride through bars 53-59 and snare through bars 60-77, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 78-84 and 94-99, and 5 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |x-x-x-xxx-x-x-xx|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
The Messenger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 44, 102, 110, 159, 167 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 82-100 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 94-241 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 97-122 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Messenger?

115 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 Messenger hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

262 bars, about 9:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Messenger?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 44, 102, 110, 159, 167 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 262 BARS ANALYSED