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Decadence · Disturbed

EXERCISE 11 OF 43
Groove E -- Part E
56 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART C
PART A
PART B
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBCNA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Decadence on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29, toms through bars 30-37 and ride through bars 38-46, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 38-40, and 3 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x-x-xxx|--xx-xxxx--x--x-|
Decadence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 36, 37, 45 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Decadence?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Decadence hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Decadence?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 36, 37, 45 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED