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The Sacrificial Flame · Draconian

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 47 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Q, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART M
BREAK
PART S4
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAQMS3S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sacrificial Flame on drums

112 bars, 7:04, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, snare through bars 27-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, ride through bars 45-52 and silence through bars 53-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 21 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 18, 21, 22 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-53 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S4 and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-89 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 86-108 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Sacrificial Flame?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Sacrificial Flame hard to play on drums?

45 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Sacrificial Flame?

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 18, 21, 22 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED