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Deathbox · Mnemic

Deathbox · Mnemic
EXERCISE 4 OF 52
Groove H -- Part H
54 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART I, PART H
PART D
PART I
PART D
PART D
PART I
PART H
CHORUS
PART Z
PART I
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK 3
10 groovesQDS17IZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deathbox on drums

188 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 230 BPM, 3:48 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, snare through bars 37-58, hi-hat through bars 59-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-81, 83-84 and 87-89, and 4 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    75
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Deathbox -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 36, 54, 73, 74, 86 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- Q, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-55 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-83 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deathbox?

230 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Deathbox hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Deathbox?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 36, 54, 73, 74, 86 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED