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Concrete Beast · Pig Destroyer

EXERCISE 14 OF 61
Groove U
48 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART BI
PART BK
CHORUS 3
7 groovesOBILS3BK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Concrete Beast on drums

134 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-15, hi-hat through bars 16-21, toms through bars 22-31 and snare through bars 32-42, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-85, 87-89 and 91-93, and 3 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    83
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Concrete Beast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 16 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- BI, O -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S3 and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S3 and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Concrete Beast?

170 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 Concrete Beast hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Concrete Beast?

16 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 16 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED