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A# Death Metal · Gesh

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAQKHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A# Death Metal on drums

135 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-135.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 49-63, and 4 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
A# Death Metal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 64, 88, 108, 116, 124 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-84 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-125 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A# Death Metal?

180 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 A# Death Metal hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 A# Death Metal?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 64, 88, 108, 116, 124 and 3 more.

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