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Creeping Death if Lars locked in · Lars if he was good

Creeping Death if Lars locked in · Lars if he was good
EXERCISE 11 OF 79
Groove G
148 / 329 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 4, PART AF
PART F
PART P
PART F
PART P
PART F
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART F
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART AF
12 groovesTFPAFZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creeping Death if Lars locked in on drums

329 bars at 214 BPM -- fast, and 6:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
329
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-18, silence through bars 19-22, toms through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-45, snare through bars 46-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74, 76-78 and 80-82, and 17 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Creeping Death if Lars locked in -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 41, 43, 44 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- T, P -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-26 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-95 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Creeping Death if Lars locked in?

214 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 Creeping Death if Lars locked in hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

329 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 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 Creeping Death if Lars locked in?

15 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 41, 43, 44 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 329 BARS ANALYSED