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Communion · Septicflesh

EXERCISE 16 OF 22
Groove M
89 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART N
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART N
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesADS7NFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Communion on drums

138 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-47, toms through bars 48-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80 and ride through bars 81-88, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 13 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 32, 56 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Communion?

182 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 Communion hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 9 sittings, about 21 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 Communion?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 32, 56 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED