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Cremated · Mortician

EXERCISE 19 OF 34
Fill at bar 40 and 52
64 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
PART D
PART S3
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLIDAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cremated on drums

69 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 1:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x-----xx--x-x---|
Cremated -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-38 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-56 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 37-69 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cremated?

175 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 Cremated hard to play on drums?

66 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?

69 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Cremated?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED