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The Warrior Princess · Sinergy

EXERCISE 5 OF 55
Groove C
106 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
7 groovesDBMGV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Warrior Princess on drums

182 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-91, snare through bars 92-93 and hi-hat through bars 94-137, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 50-54 and 56-60, and 7 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
The Warrior Princess -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 25, 41, 49, 69, 92 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Warrior Princess?

150 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 Warrior Princess hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Warrior Princess?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 25, 41, 49, 69, 92 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED