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Dantes Inferno · Septicflesh

EXERCISE 8 OF 64
Fill at bar 27 and 70 (a small one)
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0 / 64 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART W
PART AA
OUTRO
13 groovesOHAACT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dantes Inferno on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
91/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-19, silence through bars 20-31, snare through bars 32-35, hi-hat through bars 36-53 and toms through bars 54-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-40, 42 and 44-48, and 3 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36                                                               37
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o---------------------------------------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-x-----x-------x-------x-------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Dantes Inferno -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 25, 27 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- O -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 9-33 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Bars 30-57 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dantes Inferno?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dantes Inferno hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 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 Dantes Inferno?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 25, 27 and 21 more.

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