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Combat Mosh · Lich King

Combat Mosh · Lich King
EXERCISE 1 OF 84
Groove L -- Chorus
0 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 53 BARS LIT
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AF
CHORUS 3
PART AO
CHORUS 4
13 groovesLAFXEAO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Combat Mosh on drums

234 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-31, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-46, 49-54 and 63-69, and 10 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Combat Mosh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 47, 48, 55 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- L, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-39 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-232 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Combat Mosh?

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

Is Combat Mosh hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 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 Combat Mosh?

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 47, 48, 55 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED