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Token Of Time · Ensiferum

EXERCISE 1 OF 89
Groove Q -- Chorus
0 / 128 BARS COVERED
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PART E
PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART K
OUTRO
11 groovesQEAAKN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Token Of Time on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31, toms through bars 32-40 and ride through bars 41-48, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 57-59, and 5 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----xxx-x---xx|
Token Of Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-109 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Token Of Time?

125 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 Token Of Time hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Token Of Time?

21 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED