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Trial by the Archon / Wizard's Crown · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 3 OF 71
Groove Z -- Part Z (a two-bar phrase)
66 / 208 BARS COVERED
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PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART Z
CHORUS 4
PART Z
OUTRO
17 groovesHLZJF+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 20
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trial by the Archon / Wizard's Crown on drums

208 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-19, snare through bars 20-24 and ride through bars 25-35, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 11 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Trial by the Archon / Wizard's Crown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 91, 95, 120, 122, 124 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- H, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 7-107 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-28 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Trial by the Archon / Wizard's Crown?

144 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 Trial by the Archon / Wizard's Crown hard to play on drums?

56 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Trial by the Archon / Wizard's Crown?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 91, 95, 120, 122, 124 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED