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Corpse littered battlefield · Unstable Discharge

Corpse littered battlefield · Unstable Discharge
EXERCISE 9 OF 13
Join Part S3 to Part D (bars 31-33)
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0 / 13 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3, PART D
PART S1
CHORUS
PART S3
PART D
PART S5
OUTRO
6 groovesCDS3S1S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Corpse littered battlefield on drums

67 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
1:17
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-26, silence through bars 27-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-43, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-25 and 50-65 -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-40 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Break -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Corpse littered battlefield?

210 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 Corpse littered battlefield hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 1:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED