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Beast · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 15 OF 60
Groove T
52 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
PART B
PART S2
PART U
PART W
PART Z
PART AL
PART AQ
OUTRO 2
12 groovesES2UZB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beast on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-11, ride through bars 12-13, toms through bars 14-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-33, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-41, 99-100 and 103-104 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Beast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- U -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-43 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 41-50 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beast?

135 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 Beast hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED