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Throne Of Want (8 string) · Cenobia

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDKNGAC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Throne Of Want (8 string) on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-34 and toms through bars 35-41, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-17, 25 and 27-33, and 2 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-xxx-x-x-x-xx|x-x-xxx-x-x-xxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x------|x--x--x--x---x-x|
Throne Of Want (8 string) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 18, 26, 34, 41, 42 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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, N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-22 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-54 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Throne Of Want (8 string)?

90 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 Throne Of Want (8 string) hard to play on drums?

60 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Throne Of Want (8 string)?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 18, 26, 34, 41, 42 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED