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country of corpses · j

EXERCISE 25 OF 41
Fill at bar 52, 54, 94 and 96 (a small one)
74 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
PART H
PART R
CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesSRHAAAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play country of corpses on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-21, toms through bars 22-30, snare through bars 31-58, kick and crashes through bars 59-63, toms through bars 64-72 and snare through bars 73-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-46 and 73-88 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x-----x---------x-----x---|
BD |x---x-----x-----x---x-----x-----|
country of corpses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- R, S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-31 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-50 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is country of corpses?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is country of corpses hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 country of corpses?

10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED