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Treacherous Gods · Ensiferum

EXERCISE 13 OF 60
Join Part I to Part K (bars 36-38)
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0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART K
PART C
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
16 groovesMIAJCU+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Treacherous Gods on drums

179 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53 and ride through bars 54-61, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 62-67, and 9 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-------x---x---x-------x-------x---x---|
Treacherous Gods -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 53, 121, 163 and 171.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-38 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-46 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 42-54 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Treacherous Gods?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Treacherous Gods hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Treacherous Gods?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 53, 121, 163 and 171.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED