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Death Diviner · Soilwork

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove J -- Chorus
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PART B
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJFBADY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Diviner on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-42, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 9 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------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--|
Death Diviner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 32, 36, 44, 50, 66 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-75 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Diviner?

107 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 Death Diviner hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Death Diviner?

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 32, 36, 44, 50, 66 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED