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The Script For My Requiem · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 8 OF 91
Groove G
158 / 282 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S1, CHORUS
PART S1
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AF
CHORUS 5
PART R
8 groovesIRXAFS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Script For My Requiem on drums

282 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
282
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, toms through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-42, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 41-42 and 45-46, and 11 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Script For My Requiem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 23 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- I, R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part S1 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 16-77 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-86 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Script For My Requiem?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Script For My Requiem hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

282 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Script For My Requiem?

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 23 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 282 BARS ANALYSED