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Beast Of Man · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 23 OF 81
Groove L -- Part L
75 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART R
PART AH
PART AO
9 groovesHROAHA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 5
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beast Of Man on drums

161 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
76/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Beast Of Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-49 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beast Of Man?

180 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 Beast Of Man hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 29 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 Beast Of Man?

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED