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A Tormented Reality · Hazzerd

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove G -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGALTI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Tormented Reality on drums

157 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-18, snare through bars 19-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-60, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 41-43 and 78-80, and 8 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    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---|
A Tormented Reality -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 19, 20, 36 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- G, A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-49 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-81 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-49 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Tormented Reality?

187 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 Tormented Reality hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Tormented Reality?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 19, 20, 36 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED