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Cauterize · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 8 OF 56
Groove A -- Part A
44 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNCJTA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cauterize on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-36, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 49-51, and 3 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------X---------------X-----X-|
BD |x-x-x-x---x---x---x-x-x---x-x---|
Cauterize -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 3-20 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-25 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cauterize?

115 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 Cauterize hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Cauterize?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED