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EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART J
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLFNJD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play deathcore thing on drums

153 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, toms through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-39 and snare through bars 40-64, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 65-71, and 3 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
deathcore thing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 13, 19, 20, 21 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- L -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-14 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-22 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-44 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-68 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-85 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is deathcore thing?

180 BPM, in 4/4, 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 deathcore thing hard to play on drums?

57 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 deathcore thing?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 13, 19, 20, 21 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED