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Vampiric Tyrant · Satanic Warmaster

EXERCISE 8 OF 33
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-7)
148 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART H
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIHPDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vampiric Tyrant on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-15, snare through bars 16-32, ride through bars 33-47, snare through bars 48-64 and ride through bars 65-97, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-67, 69-71 and 73-75, and 13 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Vampiric Tyrant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-15 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-97 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-121 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Vampiric Tyrant?

135 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 Vampiric Tyrant hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Vampiric Tyrant?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED