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ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 5 OF 39
Groove B -- Part B
56 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
PART O
PART R
OUTRO
12 groovesHRS7JK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE on drums

150 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-16, silence through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-51, silence through bars 52-70 and ride through bars 71-94, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 21 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----x-----|
ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 110 and 118.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-26 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-51 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 90-102 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE?

190 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 ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

150 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 110 and 118.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED