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Agony · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove H -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART AL
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHANALO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Agony on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-18, toms through bars 19-34 and snare through bars 35-44, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-13, 16-17 and 38-39, and 8 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12                               13
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----x-----------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x-----------x-------x---|--------x---x-----------x-------|
Agony -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-52 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Agony?

145 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 Agony hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Agony?

14 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED