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The Son Of The Dark Lord · Boreal Symphony

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS 5
PART B
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
BREAK 4
OUTRO
9 groovesCBFJS20+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Son Of The Dark Lord on drums

252 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-61, hi-hat through bars 62-84, silence through bars 85-96, ride through bars 97-120 and silence through bars 121-125, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10, and 36 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Son Of The Dark Lord -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 19, 49, 125, 187, 188 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-62 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part S8 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 187-217 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Son Of The Dark Lord?

150 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 Son Of The Dark Lord hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Son Of The Dark Lord?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 19, 49, 125, 187, 188 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED