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Absolute Genocide · Thy Art Is Murder

EXERCISE 2 OF 71
Groove Y -- Part Y
25 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART Y
PART AB
PART AG
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
13 groovesIYS1ABAG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Absolute Genocide on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-33, snare through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-60, snare through bars 61-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 6 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34                                               35
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x-----x--x-----x--x-----x--x-----|------x--x--x--x-----x--x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Absolute Genocide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 30, 49, 51 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-33 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Absolute Genocide?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Absolute Genocide hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 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 Absolute Genocide?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 30, 49, 51 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED