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Born in Agony · Mortal Massacre

Born in Agony · Mortal Massacre
EXERCISE 6 OF 65
Groove B
30 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART N
PART Y
PART AE
PART AH
OUTRO
BREAK 3
16 groovesGS18YDAR+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born in Agony on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9 and ride through bars 10-11, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-23, 26 and 28-31, and 5 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20                                               21
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------x-----------|x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------------------|------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Born in Agony -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 23, 29 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 6-16 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Born in Agony?

120 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 Born in Agony hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 Born in Agony?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 23, 29 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED