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This Sacrament · Nevermore

EXERCISE 24 OF 60
Groove K -- Part K
122 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBFCKX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Sacrament on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-60 and snare through bars 61-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28, 33-44 and 61-72, and 1 more place -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x----x--x-xx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-|
This Sacrament -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 52, 56, 60, 80, 84, 113 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-53 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-92 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Sacrament?

130 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 This Sacrament hard to play on drums?

63 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 This Sacrament?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 52, 56, 60, 80, 84, 113 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED