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Coma Black · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 4 OF 24
Groove D -- Chorus
58 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coma Black on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
42/100

ride through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-46, snare through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18 and 35-45 -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-----x-x-----x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x---|
Coma Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 46 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A, F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-58 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Coma Black?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Coma Black hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Coma Black?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 46 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED