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Brutal Decay · Chronosphere

Brutal Decay · Chronosphere
EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
12 groovesLDSNO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brutal Decay on drums

202 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-30, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 57-64 and 98-104, and 4 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 24 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-44 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-57 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-200 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-138 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 135-147 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Brutal Decay?

210 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 Brutal Decay hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 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 Brutal Decay?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED