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The Sails Of Charon · Scorpions

EXERCISE 26 OF 39
Run K1 · Chorus (bars 56-78)
98 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKFHBQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sails Of Charon on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-55, toms through bars 56-60, hi-hat through bars 61-67, toms through bars 68-72, hi-hat through bars 73-86 and snare through bars 87-90, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 17 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|
The Sails Of Charon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 74, 80, 86, 90 and 106.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-81 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-13 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-87 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Sails Of Charon?

111 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 Sails Of Charon hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Sails Of Charon?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 74, 80, 86, 90 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED