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As I Slither · Kataklysm

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 38 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGIOFH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play As I Slither on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-25, snare through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49 and snare through bars 50-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 66-73 and 91-106 -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    91
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---------------|
SD |x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
As I Slither -- 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 16 and 65.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-17 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-33 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-49 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-73 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-85 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is As I Slither?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 As I Slither hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 As I Slither?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED