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Comatose · Skillet

EXERCISE 10 OF 39
Groove H
37 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART S3
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART O
OUTRO
8 groovesEIGOS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comatose on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-14, hi-hat through bars 15-52, snare through bars 53-58 and silence through bars 59-63, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 25 and 29, and 7 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------------------x-------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o-------o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---------x-x---x---------|
Comatose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 22, 32, 40, 44 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-16 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-41 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Comatose?

85 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 Comatose hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Comatose?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 22, 32, 40, 44 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED