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Decapitation Fornication · Infant Annihilator

EXERCISE 28 OF 60
Fill at bar 29 (a small one)
62 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART L
PART E
PART L
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesVLAFHE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Decapitation Fornication on drums

129 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-56, ride through bars 57-78, snare through bars 79-98, toms through bars 99-100 and kick and crashes through bars 101-110, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-54, 58 and 60, and 1 more place -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Decapitation Fornication -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 20, 21, 25 and 9 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 -- V, P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-18 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-23 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-26 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-46 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Decapitation Fornication?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Decapitation Fornication hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Decapitation Fornication?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 20, 21, 25 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED