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Children Of Bodom · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 1 OF 109
Groove Q -- Chorus
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0 / 109 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART AR
CHORUS 3
21 groovesQAHVAR+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 7
JOIN · 24
LINK · 13
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Children Of Bodom on drums

261 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
261
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-15, toms through bars 16-19, ride through bars 20-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-49, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-58, 60-66 and 104-110, and 1 more place -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Children Of Bodom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 43, 50, 51, 59, 67, 83 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 93 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-55 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S11 -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Children Of Bodom?

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

Is Children Of Bodom hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

261 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 29 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 Children Of Bodom?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 43, 50, 51, 59, 67, 83 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 261 BARS ANALYSED