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The Vampiric Tyrant · Satanic Warmaster

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCKAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Vampiric Tyrant on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-32, ride through bars 33-47, snare through bars 48-64, ride through bars 65-97 and snare through bars 98-104, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-67, 69-71 and 73-75, and 13 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Vampiric Tyrant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-97 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 101-124 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Vampiric Tyrant?

135 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 Vampiric Tyrant hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 Vampiric Tyrant?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED