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Curse Of The Serpent · Jesus Piece

Curse Of The Serpent · Jesus Piece
EXERCISE 18 OF 36
Join Part H to Part M (bars 28-30)
68 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART M
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART O
PART S
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCMSHOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Curse Of The Serpent on drums

95 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-87 and snare through bars 88-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33, 35 and 41-44, and 1 more place -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41                               42
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------x----x-----x----|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-----------------------|
SD |------------x---x---------------|--------------------------------|
BD |x---------------------------x---|x-----------x-x-x----x-----x----|
Curse Of The Serpent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 28, 32 and 74.

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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part O and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Curse Of The Serpent?

171 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Curse Of The Serpent hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Curse Of The Serpent?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 28, 32 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED