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Bitter Peace · Slayer

EXERCISE 39 OF 85
Join Part S7 to Part V (bars 38-40)
114 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S7, PART V
PART S7
PART V
PART W
PART AK
PART AB
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAGWABAJZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bitter Peace on drums

182 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 9:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
9:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-17, ride through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-23 and ride through bars 24-26, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-90, 130-144 and 149-163 -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Bitter Peace -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 15, 17, 19 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- AG, W, V -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-13 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-18 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-27 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-39 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-54 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bitter Peace?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Bitter Peace hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 9:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 15 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bitter Peace?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 15, 17, 19 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED