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Bible Basher · Deicide

EXERCISE 33 OF 41
Groove U -- Outro
93 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGDUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bible Basher on drums

102 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-39, ride through bars 40-45, hi-hat through bars 46-49 and ride through bars 50-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 19-20 and 22-23, and 11 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 35 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-73 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bible Basher?

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 Bible Basher hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bible Basher?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 35 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED