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The Well Of Souls · Candlemass

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove M -- Part M
122 / 211 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFAMNS5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Well Of Souls on drums

211 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-103, silence through bars 104-108, toms through bars 109-110, hi-hat through bars 111-148, silence through bars 149-150 and hi-hat through bars 151-211.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-49, 51-53 and 55-57, and 16 more places -- 42.2% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Well Of Souls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 34, 109, 110 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F, A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-98 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-134 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Well Of Souls?

115 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 Well Of Souls hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Well Of Souls?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 34, 109, 110 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED