ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory on drums

167 bars, 12:07, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO: 55 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 167
LENGTH: 12:07
DIFFICULTY: 65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-50, silence through bars 51-53, hi-hat through bars 54-85, ride through bars 86-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-109, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-85 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    70
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|

Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Y, AH -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
Bars 1-54 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 1-43 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Bars 26-49 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
Through Part I and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 12:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 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 Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED