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Bodom After Midnight · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 12 OF 58
Groove F -- Part F
63 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AB
PART F
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPJUFM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bodom After Midnight on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
86/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-39 and ride through bars 40-47, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 53-59 and 106-112 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--------x--------x--x--x--------x-----|
Bodom After Midnight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 26, 27, 37, 39, 51 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- P -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-95 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 3-19 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bodom After Midnight?

137 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 Bodom After Midnight hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

126 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 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 Bodom After Midnight?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 26, 27, 37, 39, 51 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED