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Breeding Bacteria · Thy Art Is Murder

EXERCISE 9 OF 61
Groove E -- Part E
47 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART K
PART R
PART W
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCHGAPB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breeding Bacteria on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-23, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 14-16 and 99-101, and 2 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1...............2...............3...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x-----------x---x---x---x-----------|
Breeding Bacteria -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 21, 37, 41, 47, 55, 61 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-22 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 18-93 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-84 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Breeding Bacteria?

144 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 Breeding Bacteria hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Breeding Bacteria?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 21, 37, 41, 47, 55, 61 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED