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Depths Of Depravity · Suffocation

EXERCISE 2 OF 95
Groove J -- Chorus
24 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART C
PART K
PART R
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART C
OUTRO
BREAK 3
11 groovesJKS15CO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Depths Of Depravity on drums

233 bars at 189 BPM -- fast, and 5:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26 and ride through bars 27-33, and 31 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 39 and 43, and 8 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    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---|
Depths Of Depravity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 25, 30, 33 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-26 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-77 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part S4 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-81 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Depths Of Depravity?

189 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 Depths Of Depravity hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Depths Of Depravity?

25 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 25, 30, 33 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED