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Tyrants · Immortal

EXERCISE 30 OF 37
Groove W -- Part W
188 / 247 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART S5
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAS5SWS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tyrants on drums

247 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-62, toms through bars 63-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72, ride through bars 73-74, hi-hat through bars 75-112 and ride through bars 113-128, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 31 more places -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 30, 32, 48 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 109-128 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part W -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tyrants?

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

Is Tyrants hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Tyrants?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 30, 32, 48 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED