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Throw Yourself to the Sword · Die Spitz

EXERCISE 10 OF 32
Fill at bar 24, 104 and 112 (a small one)
59 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJEGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Throw Yourself to the Sword on drums

153 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 174 BPM, 2:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-96, ride through bars 97-104, snare through bars 105-144 and ride through bars 145-153.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 97-103, and 1 more place -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Throw Yourself to the Sword -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 36, 44 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E, K, L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 38-97 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Throw Yourself to the Sword?

174 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Throw Yourself to the Sword hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Throw Yourself to the Sword?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 36, 44 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED