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Winter Is Coming Soon · Veil Of Maya

EXERCISE 23 OF 42
Groove Y -- Part Y
77 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
PART B
CHORUS
PART Y
PART H
PART S5
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesRBADS5Y+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Winter Is Coming Soon on drums

120 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 225 BPM, 1:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-8, ride through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17 and toms through bars 18-20, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 102-116 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    102
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Winter Is Coming Soon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- AD, R -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-65 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-93 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Y and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Winter Is Coming Soon?

225 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Winter Is Coming Soon hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 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 Winter Is Coming Soon?

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED