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Cult · Slayer

EXERCISE 21 OF 76
Groove L
122 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART A
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AI
15 groovesTAIACKA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cult on drums

226 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 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
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bars 1-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-19, toms through bars 20-21, silence through bars 22-26, toms through bars 27-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-80, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-67, 69-71 and 73-75, and 23 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Cult -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 20, 32, 33, 61, 62, 63 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-34 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-41 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 61-84 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-89 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cult?

185 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 Cult hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 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 Cult?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 20, 32, 33, 61, 62, 63 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED