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Agitated Screams Of Maggots · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 1 OF 81
Groove H -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
PART S
PART U
PART Z
CHORUS 3
PART AL
PART AN
PART AH
PART AS
OUTRO
10 groovesHUZANL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 13
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Agitated Screams Of Maggots on drums

156 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
78/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-72, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 33-39, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-------|
Agitated Screams Of Maggots -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 32, 48, 54 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-66 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Agitated Screams Of Maggots?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Agitated Screams Of Maggots hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 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 Agitated Screams Of Maggots?

18 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 32, 48, 54 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED