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Bludgeoned To Death · Suicide Silence

EXERCISE 28 OF 43
Fill at bar 53 and 55 (a small one)
66 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
CHORUS
PART F
PART S4
PART F
PART T
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBFS4TZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bludgeoned To Death on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:21 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
77/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, snare through bars 19-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-39, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 69-71 and 73-75 -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 18, 19, 32, 33, 35 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-36 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-47 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part Z -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bludgeoned To Death?

130 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 Bludgeoned To 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Bludgeoned To Death?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 18, 19, 32, 33, 35 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED