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Bring Back the Plague · Cattle Decapitation

EXERCISE 6 OF 92
3-bar fill at bar 7
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0 / 92 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART H
PART K
PART P
CHORUS
PART Z
PART K
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesASWBKAJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bring Back the Plague on drums

230 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-50, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-79, 81-83 and 87-89, and 5 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------x-x-x-x-|
Bring Back the Plague -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- W, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 15-35 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bring Back the Plague?

230 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bring Back the Plague hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bring Back the Plague?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED