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Your Sword Versus My Dagger · Silverstein

EXERCISE 3 OF 29
Groove B -- Part B
102 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCMBOFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Sword Versus My Dagger on drums

186 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-44 and snare through bars 45-47, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-8, 13-19 and 21-27, and 7 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|--x-----x-x-----|
Your Sword Versus My Dagger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 38, 44, 60, 68 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, V -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-96 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Your Sword Versus My Dagger?

250 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Your Sword Versus My Dagger hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Sword Versus My Dagger?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 38, 44, 60, 68 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED