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Beelzeboss. · Tenacious D

EXERCISE 20 OF 46
Run S61 · Part S6 (bars 45-79)
77 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S6
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S6
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
PART L
PART N
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDS6S8LN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beelzeboss. on drums

190 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-23, silence through bars 24-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-37, snare through bars 38-45 and silence through bars 46-75, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-21, 38-43 and 82, and 2 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x---x---x---x---x-------x---x---x---x---|
Beelzeboss. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 44, 78 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-83 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part S6 and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-131 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beelzeboss.?

140 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 Beelzeboss. hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Beelzeboss.?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 44, 78 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED