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Baphomet · Belphegor

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove K -- Part K
0 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART W
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS7EKWZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Baphomet on drums

93 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 119 BPM, 4:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
76/100

ride through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-62, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 17 and 34-37, and 1 more place -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Baphomet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 30, 32, 40 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Baphomet?

119 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Baphomet hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 15 sittings, about 22 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 Baphomet?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 30, 32, 40 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED