ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play deathcore4 on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 150 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 101
LENGTH: 2:41
DIFFICULTY: 77/100

toms through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-32, snare through bars 33-34, toms through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-68, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-15, 18-19 and 22, and 3 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    8                                                9
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------|------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |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-----|

deathcore4 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 17, 20, 21, 32, 35 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 1-55 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Bars 39-59 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is deathcore4?

150 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 deathcore4 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 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 deathcore4?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 17, 20, 21, 32, 35 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED