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EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove V -- Chorus
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0 / 30 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART S2
PART O
CHORUS
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
8 groovesVS2AGOAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brutal Neo-Classical Death Metalcore on drums

59 bars, 7:22, at 30 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
30 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
7:22
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 3-12, ride through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, snare through bars 39-42 and toms through bars 43-44, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 1 more place -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------------------------x--x--x-----|
Brutal Neo-Classical Death Metalcore -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 21, 22, 43, 44 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- V, W -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-23 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-39 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part X and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-51 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Brutal Neo-Classical Death Metalcore?

30 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Brutal Neo-Classical Death Metalcore hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 7:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Brutal Neo-Classical Death Metalcore?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 21, 22, 43, 44 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED