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Belly of the Beast · Combust

EXERCISE 3 OF 54
Groove E -- Outro
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0 / 54 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G, OUTRO
PART D
PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKGDEAA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Belly of the Beast on drums

146 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-40, snare through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-89, snare through bars 90-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-108, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-40 and 43-44, and 15 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Belly of the Beast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 58, 62, 66 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S6 -- 11 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 106-115 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Belly of the Beast?

155 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 Belly of the Beast hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Belly of the Beast?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 58, 62, 66 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED