ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chronic Slaughter on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 135 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 133
LENGTH: 3:54
DIFFICULTY: 85/100

toms through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, snare through bars 10-44, toms through bars 45-46, snare through bars 47-54 and ride through bars 55-58, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-54, 59 and 61-66, and 2 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47                                                               48
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-------x-------x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|----x-------x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-------x-x-x-x-x-------|

Chronic Slaughter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 13 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part Y and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- BD (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
Through Part I -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Through Part I and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part Q and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Chronic Slaughter?

135 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 Chronic Slaughter hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

133 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Chronic Slaughter?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 13 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED