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The Rivers of Avernus · Mors Principium Est, Jori Haukio

The Rivers of Avernus · Mors Principium Est, Jori Haukio
EXERCISE 16 OF 51
Groove N
132 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAMZRK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rivers of Avernus on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-22, toms through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-60, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 41-55 and 57-63, and 6 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
The Rivers of Avernus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 32, 56, 72 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-30 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-90 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Rivers of Avernus?

145 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 Rivers of Avernus hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Rivers of Avernus?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 32, 56, 72 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED