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Thy Life Is Eternal III - Castle Under Iridescent Skies · Lost In The Winters Woods

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove D -- Part D
0 / 329 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 56 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHS7DLR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thy Life Is Eternal III - Castle Under Iridescent Skies on drums

329 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 9:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
329
LENGTH
9:24
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64, snare through bars 65-102 and toms through bars 103-104, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 5 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Thy Life Is Eternal III - Castle Under Iridescent Skies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 8, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 101-169 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part S7 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 239-329 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thy Life Is Eternal III - Castle Under Iridescent Skies?

140 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 Thy Life Is Eternal III - Castle Under Iridescent Skies 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

329 bars, about 9:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Thy Life Is Eternal III - Castle Under Iridescent Skies?

9 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 8, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 329 BARS ANALYSED