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Will the Sun Rise? · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART S10
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
12 groovesEIS10WF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Will the Sun Rise? on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
86/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-72, ride through bars 73-74, hi-hat through bars 75-84 and silence through bars 85-96, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 28-29 and 32, and 14 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Will the Sun Rise? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 33, 40, 41 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-48 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-83 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-106 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Will the Sun Rise??

140 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 Will the Sun Rise? hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Will the Sun Rise??

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 33, 40, 41 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED