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Criminally Insane · Slayer

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART B
VERSE
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIBGCE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Criminally Insane on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
74/100

ride through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, ride through bars 28-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-27, 38-45 and 49-55, and 2 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 11, 17, 19, 37, 47 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-38 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-72 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Criminally Insane?

107 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Criminally Insane hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 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 Criminally Insane?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 11, 17, 19, 37, 47 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED