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Behold The Face Of Death · Arkangel

EXERCISE 4 OF 33
Groove C (a two-bar phrase)
35 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART K
PART E
PART H
PART K
PART E
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesOEHKN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Behold The Face Of Death on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-35, snare through bars 36-41, hi-hat through bars 42-45 and snare through bars 46-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-52, 56-57 and 60-65 -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Behold The Face Of Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 8, 18, 29 and 53.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- O, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-36 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-42 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Behold The Face Of Death?

100 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 Behold The Face Of Death hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Behold The Face Of Death?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 8, 18, 29 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED