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Deathamphetamine · Exodus

EXERCISE 1 OF 109
Groove X -- Chorus
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0 / 109 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART G
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
17 groovesXAJGUAC+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deathamphetamine on drums

292 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 8:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
292
LENGTH
8:44
DIFFICULTY
81/100

toms through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-38, snare through bars 39-47, hi-hat through bars 48-67 and ride through bars 68-73, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 53-55 and 58-60, and 9 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 30 and 66 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- X -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part AJ -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 22 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deathamphetamine?

128 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 Deathamphetamine hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

292 bars, about 8:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 30 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Deathamphetamine?

23 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 30 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 292 BARS ANALYSED