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Birth Of Ignorance · Brutal Truth

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove K -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKMPRS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Birth Of Ignorance on drums

83 bars, 6:00, at 50 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
50 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
90/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42 and ride through bars 43-46, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 18-25 and 31-33, and 2 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Birth Of Ignorance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-55 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Birth Of Ignorance?

50 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Birth Of Ignorance hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Birth Of Ignorance?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED