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EXERCISE 5 OF 54
Fill at bar 39 and 47 (a small one)
30 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART S3
PART E
PART S5
CHORUS
PART P
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLPEHS5+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play cool melodic metalcore thing on drums

102 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-26, silence through bars 27-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-50, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 23 and 53, and 6 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    95
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
cool melodic metalcore thing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H, L -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part S3 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-44 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S8 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is cool melodic metalcore thing?

190 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 cool melodic metalcore thing hard to play on drums?

60 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 cool melodic metalcore thing?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED