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The Remembrance Ballad · Atreyu

EXERCISE 15 OF 64
Fill at bar 24 (a small one)
103 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART W
OUTRO
8 groovesCKWAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Remembrance Ballad on drums

163 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48 and toms through bars 49-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-23 and 51, and 29 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x-----|
The Remembrance Ballad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 46, 49, 50 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-59 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Remembrance Ballad?

142 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 Remembrance Ballad hard to play on drums?

50 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Remembrance Ballad?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 46, 49, 50 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED