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Cancer Of The Soul · Bloodbath

EXERCISE 14 OF 62
Groove J
111 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFMBYI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cancer Of The Soul on drums

180 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, toms through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-23 and toms through bars 24-25, and 39 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14-16 and 18-19, and 13 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Cancer Of The Soul -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 17, 35, 43 and 18 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, M -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cancer Of The Soul?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Cancer Of The Soul hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Cancer Of The Soul?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 17, 35, 43 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED