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Dehydrated · Pestilence

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 52 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFASGS13+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dehydrated on drums

148 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-45, ride through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-73, toms through bars 74-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-115, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 34-40 and 50-57, and 2 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Dehydrated -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-20 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-53 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dehydrated?

207 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 Dehydrated hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 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 Dehydrated?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED